Re: GUI Building

2000-01-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > Is gnome absolutely necessary? can KDE replace those features? > I'm all for GTK, but given that usually it's usually either/or for > KDE/GNOME, I'd rather not have to add GNOME to a KDE system just > for gnucash. We use a lot of gnome (not gtk) code, so we can't really ditch it. Some of the

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-04 Thread teri
> > > It seems like the two big systems are KDE and GNOME. It shouldn't be > that hard to nearly fully accomodate a KDE desktop by just adding some > code for the things like session management that won't work at all > without KDE specific code. #ifdefed code like that, I'm all in favor >

Re: KDE (was Re: GUI Building)

2000-01-03 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While I am all in favour of a KDE version of gnucash, if somebody > wants to code at it, it might be wise to consider the legal issues > *before* we get too far down the road to do anything about it. Actually I wasn't thinking about that. Haven

Re: KDE (was Re: GUI Building)

2000-01-03 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Has somebody thought about the licensing hassles that the KDE version creates? It's been hashed out ad infinitum on the Debian lists, and, as I remember it, if we want to link to QT (even Qt 2.0) in such a way that is binary-redistributable, we need to: a) Change to a new licence or, more reali

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-03 Thread Rob Browning
teri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's where the momentum is, so you're probably right. I was thinking > from the point of view of those with Linux distributions (admittedly a > minority) that come without gnome (ie: caldera/kde). As it is now, > since the features are included unevenly and

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-03 Thread teri
> > teri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At least I wanted to make sure that the important people here (those > > doing the work, for which I'm very grateful, even though I haven't > > been able to run the qt version yet) know of this option. > > Thanks for the info. Actually, I knew a

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-03 Thread Rob Browning
teri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At least I wanted to make sure that the important people here (those > doing the work, for which I'm very grateful, even though I haven't > been able to run the qt version yet) know of this option. Thanks for the info. Actually, I knew about wxWindows, but ove

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-03 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 3 Jan 100 11:58:34 -0500 (EST), teri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: teri> www.wxwindows.org for the details. Wx uses the underlying teri> windowing system (I've been using gtk under both KDE and Gnome teri> and msw in windows 9x and NT). Yes it's a lowest common teri> denominato

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-03 Thread teri
> ... > > There *do* exist independent tools for "kicking out" Qt and GTK UI's; > they don't interoperate, and since the models are fairly different, it > seems not too likely that this will be created. All this talk about GTK, QT, windows, gnome, etc... has me wondering, has no one heard of

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Walker writes: > >> The only reasons I was talking about using qt was because I thought > >> that QT was the only toolkit which ran under windows and because I > >> was hoping to stave _that_ whole argument off before it happened, > >> and to keep the two GUIs in sync with each other in

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 08:20:08 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Christopher> Why *precisely* do you think it is vastly important to Christopher> simultaneously use multiple GUI toolkits? 1. using Qt is the only way that I know of for us to have a windows version

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:30:50 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 01:12:16 -0600, Christopher Browne > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > what are the IDEs which kick out both gtk and qt code? maybe I should > take a stab a

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think this begs the question: > > Why *precisely* do you think it is vastly important to simultaneously > use multiple GUI toolkits? > > I don't see there being any technical merit to the idea; having to > conform to two GUIs at the same ti

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
> This approach would be fairly compatible with the notion of writing up > GUIs using Glade, and implementing using libGlade. libGlade reads in > the GTK GUI representation in XML form, which means that if you wanted > to have several visibly different GUIs, you might create: > a) GnuCash-gui

Re: GUI Building

2000-01-01 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 01:12:16 -0600, Christopher Browne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: what are the IDEs which kick out both gtk and qt code? maybe I should take a stab at each of them. >> Write the UI with an UI editor, with an UI editor which could kick >> out both QT and gnome, and t

GUI Building

1999-12-31 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:19:04 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:39:55 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Dave> I think 'enter' should mean 'commit and move down one row', just > Dave> like in Quic