On 10 Jan 2011, at 12:24 PM, Christian Stimming wrote:
We've been discussing various future directions for gnucash, including a switch to a different programming language for the GUI code [1]. GUI coding in C sucks. Because of this, I've experimented with C++/Qt and was able to write up a usable gnucash-like register window GUI in 2-3 weeks which already includes features that are unavailable in "conventional gnucash" [2]. I chose C++/Qt because I'm very familiar and productive with that platform.
Something that would be really awesome would be to look at the GUI code in such a way as to ensure that writing the GUI code for the native platform would be simple and easy to do.
In other words, it would be awesome if there was a native MacOSX version of gnucash, that used the Cocoa interface natively, and a native Windows version of gnucash, that used the Windows APIs natively, etc.
I think rather than focusing on a GUI, rather focus on a clean API to the gnucash core, that a GUI might call easily. That will free up a python coder to use the python bindings to make a python based interface (as you've suggested), or a Cocoa coder to make MacOSX bindings, etc.
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