Will this also include native Gnome 3 support? I'm kind of hooked on Gnome 3 GTKHeaderBar.
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Fross, Michael <mich...@fross.org> wrote: > I would think that when GnuCash becomes a more traditional database > application, a lot of doors would open. The mobile app could interact > directly with the data without all of the sync work (which I believe would > be significant.) > > IIRC, the goal for that is at the end of the year. Derek, if this is what > you mean by the C++ rewrite, then apologies for the repetition. > > And for the record, I think an option to host your own server would be > important. > > Keep up the great work guys. It's appreciated. > > Michael > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Steve <butterands...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Personally, I'd be willing to pay $100+ per year for the app. I don't > > expect > > > it to be free, I'm thrilled that for the past number of years since > > leaving > > > Quicken, that I have a program that "works". To have that information > > > available to me wherever I am? Hard to put a price on it. Hard for me > > to > > > imagine that if one is able to translate the current program to a > mobile > > > app, that it would not get wide adoption with whatever reasonable > monthly > > > charge. > > > > > > I'm just saying that with each passing day, having a program that is > > > anchored to a desktop or laptop computer, makes increasingly less > sense. > > > Perhaps progress is being made behind the scenes, I sure hope so. > > > > The issue at hand is that: > > > > 1) Building such an app would require time. It may be possible to > > leverage the existing GnuCash for Android app, but it would require a > > lot of extra work to handle real-time data syncronization. Also, > > users would probably need/want an iOS version too. > > > > 2) We'd need to run a service that would enable data sharing between > > the app and your desktop. The easiest way to do this would be a > > hosted service that hosts your data wholesale. Another option would > > be to enable you to run your own server, but I suspect MOST users > > would not have the resources or skills to do that. > > > > 3) Before we could get any of this done, we'd need to complete the C++ > > rewrite of the main code which would enable porting to the other > > platforms. > > > > In short -- doing this would be a lot of work, it it would require a lot > > of moving parts to come together. While I think it's a reasonable long > > term goal, I don't see it happening in the next year or three without > > some major influx of resources. > > > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > -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 > > warl...@mit.edu PGP key available > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
