I've been doing my personal finances using spreadsheets for many years now. I've gotten things down where it's easy now. However, it's hard to get good data out of it. I needed a real financial program so I turned to gnucash. I am happy I did. It was challenging to have to learn good accounting practices, terminology and approaches to finances. The learning experience itself was worth it and I now feel I can utilize gnucash for my financial needs. Thanks a lot to all who've contributed!
Now I have concerns of a technical nature. I have run into so many usability bugs in the application that I've lost track. I thought, "I'll see if there's a bug open for this or maybe open a new one." I've even thought "Well, time learn C again!" I looked through the bug queue and noticed that lots of the GUI-related bugs were years old. Even things that should be simple to fix. In the code I found out about cutecash, a QT-based GUI for gnucash. I ran into lots of build problems on my machine that I haven't resolved yet (does it still build?), so I was unable to see it first hand. However, all of this, taken together, has lead me to believe that gnucash is due for a GUI transplant. It needs a makeover, if only for the developer's sake so that it's easy to fix usability bugs qiuckly (which appears not to be the current case). What are the current discussions surrounding build a new, modern GUI for gnucash? Has there been talk about using a different language, other than C/C++ for the GUI? QT or GTK3? And to expose my biases a little, my experience is mostly with Python. Python + Glade has worked well in the past for to create a GUI in a surprisingly small amount of time. I also use Python at work for mostly data-related tasks so I know how easy it is do some very cool data work in Python. Most meta-type of programming can be done well using dictionaries! I'm wanted to get my feet wet and help, but I feel like trying to work out all of the GUI problems with the current build of gnucash would be futile. It seems to me that if a new language/toolkit combo could be found that most current developers could agree upon, then it would re-ignite interest in gnucash's usability. Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
