New help

2004-05-04 Thread Jason Tan
Hi, I've just read a request for help in the Linux-Announce Digest #758. I'm not sure if I'll be of much help. I'm an accountant by profession, but I'm much inclined towards IT. As such, I understand what both the accountants' and programmers' wants and needs, and constraints. I'm more used to

Re: New help

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
We can gladly use your help.. How would you LIKE to help? -derek Jason Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > > I've just read a request for help in the Linux-Announce Digest #758. > > I'm not sure if I'll be of much help. > > I'm an accountant by profession, but I'm much inclined towards IT.

Re: New help

2004-05-04 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:35:09PM +0800, Jason Tan was heard to remark: > Hi, > > > I've just read a request for help in the Linux-Announce Digest #758. > > I'm not sure if I'll be of much help. > > I'm an accountant by profession, but I'm much inclined towards IT. As > such, I understand what

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:57:42PM -0700, David Hampton was heard to remark: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 07:31, Christian Neumair wrote: > > The attached patch aims to HIGify the welcome/new user dialog. > > What version of glade are you using to edit these files? There are a > bunch of properties th

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > Since neither debian nor fedora core have glade-2.4 in it, I think > Christian could help us by providing instructions on how to get > gnome-2.4/2.6 from source. Since neither debian nor fedora core have glade-2.4 I would argue that gnucash SHOULD NOT B

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Christian Neumair
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 23:57 -0700, David Hampton wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 07:31, Christian Neumair wrote: > > The attached patch aims to HIGify the welcome/new user dialog. > > What version of glade are you using to edit these files? There are a > bunch of properties there that my version o

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Benoit Grégoire
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 May 2004 11:09 am, Derek Atkins wrote: > I'll repeat my statement again: We should LAG gnome releases by AT > LEAST 6-9 months... Minimum. And indeed we should pick a "base > distro" (I'd argue FC1 at this point) and make sure our code

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Benoit Grégoire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, gnome 2.4 has already been out for eight months now. By the time we It's only been out about six months, and most distros are only NOW being released with it > release gnucash 2, it will have been out for over a year. I admit gnome 2.6

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Benoit Grégoire
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 May 2004 01:00 pm, Derek Atkins wrote: > No, 2.4 is NOT part of FC1: > > ls gtk2* > gtk2-2.2.4-5.1.i386.rpm > gtk2-devel-2.2.4-5.1.i386.rpm > gtk2-engines-2.2.0-3.i386.rpm Err, gtk2-2.2.4 IS part of gnome 2.4, gtk2-2.4.0 was only just re

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Herbert Thoma
Just as a side note on this topic: I just installed SuSE 9.1 and tried to compile GnuCash (stable branch first). Almost all packages needed are included in the distribution, but they don't get installed by default. There is an installation option for full gnome and for developement, but apparently

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Benoit Grégoire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 04 May 2004 01:00 pm, Derek Atkins wrote: >> No, 2.4 is NOT part of FC1: >> >> ls gtk2* >> gtk2-2.2.4-5.1.i386.rpm >> gtk2-devel-2.2.4-5.1.i386.rpm >> gtk2-engines-2.2.0-3.i386.rpm > > Err, gtk2-2.2.4 IS part of gnome 2.4, gtk2-2.4.0 was onl

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Herbert Thoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just as a side note on this topic: > > I just installed SuSE 9.1 and tried to compile GnuCash (stable branch first). > Almost all packages needed are included in the distribution, but they don't > get installed by default. There is an installation option

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread David Hampton
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 10:00, Derek Atkins wrote: > Benoit Grégoire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > release gnucash 2, it will have been out for over a year. I admit gnome 2.6 > > will be pushing it, but 2.4 (or later) is already part of FC1, Debian > > testing, Mandrake 10, and Suse 9.1. Debian

Re: [PATCH] GNOME 2: HIGify welcome dialog.

2004-05-04 Thread David Hampton
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 09:15, Christian Neumair wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 23:57 -0700, David Hampton wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 07:31, Christian Neumair wrote: > > > The attached patch aims to HIGify the welcome/new user dialog. > > > > What version of glade are you using to edit these f

[PATCH] GNOME 2: Make register cursor re-appear

2004-05-04 Thread Christian Neumair
Subject says it all. I don't think we need a PangoRectangle pointer, so I replaced it by a plain PangoRectangle. regs, Chris Index: src/register/register-gnome/gnucash-item-edit.c === RCS file: /home/cvs/cvsroot/gnucash/src/register/

Re: QOF help!

2004-05-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Monday 03 May 2004 11:15, Derek Atkins wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday 03 May 2004 4:07, you wrote: > >> In theory, the docs should auto build with doxygen > >> I think you need to > >> configure --enable-doxygen or --enable-dot > Uh, did you try "make doc"?

Wiki

2004-05-04 Thread Neil Williams
Actually, I've got experience of setting up and working with Wikis and the gnucash.org site mentions using a Wiki as a possible development aid. What's the feeling about me combining the doxygen output and creating the Wiki - preferably on gnucash.org - I don't mind. I also write search engines

Re: Wiki

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I've got experience of setting up and working with Wikis and the > gnucash.org site mentions using a Wiki as a possible development aid. > > What's the feeling about me combining the doxygen output and creating the Wiki > - preferably on

Re: QOF help!

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The documentation produced, is there a problem with hosting it somewhere? (If > I keep it updated from CVS)? I've got the space to host it, if you'd like, > although somewhere on gnucash.org would be more intuitive it would force the > update burden o

Re: QOF help!

2004-05-04 Thread Josh Sled
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 17:41, Derek Atkins wrote: > IMHO doxygen should be the ONLY place for API documentation. > However if you want to provide usage examples, or architectural > documentation, docbook would definitely be a reasonable thing. I'd push for most instances of this type of documentat

Re: QOF help!

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Josh Sled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 17:41, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> IMHO doxygen should be the ONLY place for API documentation. >> However if you want to provide usage examples, or architectural >> documentation, docbook would definitely be a reasonable thing. > > I'd pu

Re: Wiki

2004-05-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:31, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > I also write search engines for mailing list archives (just something to > > while away the time while gnucash compiles) and I've got a few stock ones > > that I can adapt, one in Perl and one in PHP (prefer PHP). > > This we could do... I

Re: QOF help!

2004-05-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:41, Derek Atkins wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The documentation produced, is there a problem with hosting it somewhere? > > (If I keep it updated from CVS)? I've got the space to host it, if you'd > > like, although somewhere on gnucash.org would

Re: Wiki

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The archives are in a sub-domain of gnucash.org but how is that configured? Right now there are two machines that have gnucash.org addresses (there are no subdomains, just hostnames in the gnucash.org domain): machine1 is "gnucash.org", "www.gnucash.o

Re: QOF help!

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can't it simply be linked into www.gnucash.org using a symbolic link or NFS > etc.? What's the design of the various sub-domains? (off-list if you like - > I'll need to know about the list vs www domains for the search engine). Yes, there could be an

discussion re: libgoffice scheduling

2004-05-04 Thread Josh Sled
I wanted to relay the following conversation I had, earlier, with Jody f/ Gnumeric regarding the split-out _from_ Gnumeric of what's being called libgoffice. It'll include stuff like toolbar foreground/background-color selection, font-selection, &c... all sorts of standard-office-app "stuff". The

Re: QOF help!

2004-05-04 Thread Josh Sled
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 17:50, Derek Atkins wrote: > I'm not sure how to use doxygen for architectural docs... Could you > provide an example or pointers to docs that describe it? http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/commands.html Using \defgroup , \addtogroup , \example , \mainpage and \file , a

Re: discussion re: libgoffice scheduling

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Atkins
My personal feelings: 1) we don't want to use gnome cvs for multiple reasons: - they don't limit developer access to different modules, - we've already got our system set up - we can control our system, cvsweb, etc. 2) I think with regard to GOG that we should snapshot his code into o