You shouldn't be surprised. It's a lot of work to build a separate GUI for each platform and very few FLOSS projects have the resources for that.
GnuCash's GUI is built with the Gtk framework and yes, its X11 heritage shows through quite strongly. If that's a deal breaker for you, too bad. There's no "tyranny of vocal minorities" in open source. There's a tyranny of the tiny minority of dedicated volunteers who put millions of hours of work every year into open source programs and give them away. You can accept the gift or not, your choice. And roger, we don't think that every download turns into a user. Regards, John Ralls > On May 27, 2019, at 10:43 AM, kentsor <a...@snak.com> wrote: > > John Ralls-2 wrote >> No, no one has ever undertaken a MacOS-native UI for GnuCash. > > I'm surprised to hear that. The program could be very useful and far more > popular, but the list of UI issues I could draw up would be a long one > indeed. Accounting is unpleasant enough that I would not put up with a > program that looks and works like this. If it was just a few issues I'd be > more than willing to chip in and submit fixes as I have for two other > projects but this is just so thoroughly painful and alien to use. <rant> > I've always seen it as the perpetual tyranny by the vocal minorities that is > the bane of so many open source projects, forcing conformity to whatever pet > linux distro of the day over mass appeal and usefulness to the general > public. </rant> > > I would also say that download counts of a given OS build is not any > indication of users willing to use the program. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
