On Friday 29 October 2004 3:36 pm, you wrote: > I'm wondering if we should look at bonobo as the interface between > different QOF applications? This would give us both online and > offline data interchange. I just dont know how much work it would be, > as I know next to nothing about bonobo.
Well, that was better than my zero knowledge of bonobo! (until I started googling for this little lot) It would make sense to join these kinds of applications: The Gnumeric Spreadsheet. The GNOME postscript viewer The GNOME PDF viewer The Gill SVG viewer The Nautilus Graphical Shell The Evolution groupware suite. But this is a problem (certainly for pilot-link): Our [Gnome] implementation of the Bonobo interfaces, from now on referred to as "bonobo" is based heavily on the GTK+ object system. I need to keep QOF free from X and Gtk if I can - at least by providing build options to exclude GUI components. Bonobo may well be good for GnuCash and Gnome in general, but it doesn't appear to do what I need. OAF may be more useful. If I read it right, using OAF allows the code to link into bonobo without the concerns about linking GUI components on top. apt-cache show oaf Package: oaf Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), liboaf0 (>= 0.6.10), liborbit0 (>= 0.5.17), libpopt0 (>= 1.6.4), libwrap0, libxml1 (>= 1:1.8.14-3), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) liboaf is already a GnuCash dependency - which begs the question why it's not being used already and seeing as it is required, what is GnuCash using bonobo to achieve? Is it just for Guppi? I think I'm going to have a hard time adding OAF even as an optional framework on pilot-link. I did consider redirecting QOF from pilot-link to gnome-pilot but gnome-pilot no longer exists, it's disappeared into Novell/Ximian/Evolution and has no home page as a separate product anymore. Thanks Derek, that's the best recommendation I've had so far!, (despite the hurdles). -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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