On Feb 4, 2008 9:18 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Charles Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That sounds pretty nice to me. There certainly should be some benefits > in > > terms of consistency of the user experience and in code sharing > (duplicate > > checking in particular). Any opinion on whether to switch from > GnomeDruid to > > GtkAssistant? GnomeDruid seems to be deprecated from my (very limited) > > readings on it. > > Well, the current implementation uses GnomeDruid. I don't know anything > about GtkAssistant so I can't answer that. >
GtkAssistant is the official replacement for GnomeDruid, starting with Gtk+ 2.10. I haven't looked at it closely. It's supposed to be a bit easier to set up. Hopefully it is an improvement. > > However, doing this for the CURRENT qif importer would be fairly > > problematic, I think. > > > > Yeah the code seems like it was written pretty quickly... and the visual > > experience is pretty ugly... and it is based on the deprecated > GnomeDruid > > (which may have been state-of-the-art at the time). But the separation > between > > the application layer the and GUI layer is pretty decent, as nearly all > of the > > former is in Scheme and nearly all of the latter is in C. That's why, > in > > writing patches, I kind of decided to give priority to the Scheme code > because > > the bugs in there have to be fixed regardless or they'll wind up getting > > carried over to the generic importer, whereas any fixes made to the C > code > > will probably get thrown away. That's my impression anyway. > > Well, it may be possible to migrate some... But migrating over to the > new transaction matcher that all the other importers use would be > challenging, I think. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
