Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On 11-02-13 23:01, John Ralls wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote: John, what's your view of the best way forward? I'm confused by what you want to wrap C++ inside GObject. What's your end vision and what are the steps along the way. The goal is, as ever, a clean,

Re: Gnucash 2.5/6

2013-02-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On 11-02-13 15:00, Phil Longstaff wrote: Yes. I have a first draft ready to go. Looks pretty rough but is usable, which is what I needed. What I've done: 1) structurally, split GncBudgetView out from GncPluginPageBudget. GncBudgetView provides a widget that GncPluginPageBudget can use and

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On 11-02-13 19:36, John Ralls wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: John Ralls writes: As for Gtkmm, it's just a C++ interface wrapped around Gtk+. If we're dumping Gtk+ because we don't like the direction they're going, Gtkmm doesn't get us anywhere. Having argued that

On Gtk3 (was:Re: Gnucash 2.5/6)

2013-02-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On 08-02-13 16:09, Derek Atkins wrote: Geert Janssens writes: Forgot to mention: Gtk3 was indeed not on the agenda for 2.6. 2.6 is only meant to be *ready* to be migrated. This means getting rid of all the deprecated gtk symbols. Other than the register this is done. So the register rewrite is

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread Buddha Buck
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > My peronal interest is simplified multi-platform support. If we can achieve > that by slowly moving away from GLib/GObject by using C++ I welcome that as > well. I don't mind it will take me some time to get used to C++. The > language in it

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On 12-02-13 12:22, Buddha Buck wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: My peronal interest is simplified multi-platform support. If we can achieve that by slowly moving away from GLib/GObject by using C++ I welcome that as well. I don't mind it will take me some time to ge

Re: On Gtk3 (was:Re: Gnucash 2.5/6)

2013-02-12 Thread John Ralls
On Feb 12, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On 08-02-13 16:09, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Geert Janssens writes: >> >>> Forgot to mention: Gtk3 was indeed not on the agenda for 2.6. 2.6 is >>> only meant to be *ready* to be migrated. This means getting rid of all >>> the deprecated gtk sy

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread John Ralls
On Feb 12, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On 12-02-13 12:22, Buddha Buck wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Geert Janssens >> wrote: >>> My peronal interest is simplified multi-platform support. If we can achieve >>> that by slowly moving away from GLib/GObject by using C++ I

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Geert Janssens writes: > Indeed. I mostly meant to suggest our *engine* should be totally > multi-platform. The gui should be adapted to the target OS and > form-factor anyway. I wouldn't want to use a gui similar to current > GnuCash's one on an Android tablet for example. Having the engine > av

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread John Ralls
On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Geert Janssens writes: > >> Indeed. I mostly meant to suggest our *engine* should be totally >> multi-platform. The gui should be adapted to the target OS and >> form-factor anyway. I wouldn't want to use a gui similar to current >> GnuCash's

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ralls writes: > On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Geert Janssens writes: >> >>> Indeed. I mostly meant to suggest our *engine* should be totally >>> multi-platform. The gui should be adapted to the target OS and >>> form-factor anyway. I wouldn't want to use a gui simi

Re: Gnucash 2.5/6 - jqplot

2013-02-12 Thread Geert Janssens
On 07-02-13 19:32, John Ralls wrote: Geert mentioned in the Notification Emails thread that he'd like to get 2.6 released in less than a year, and Christian was pushing to do so this time *last* year. On the principle that "Release is a misnomer. Software is never released, it escapes." [1], i

Re: Beyond 2.6

2013-02-12 Thread John Ralls
On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > John Ralls writes: > >> On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> >>> Geert Janssens writes: >>> Indeed. I mostly meant to suggest our *engine* should be totally multi-platform. The gui should be adapted to the target O

Re: Gnucash 2.5/6

2013-02-12 Thread John Ralls
On Feb 9, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am still plodding on with this and it is progressing slowly, have > uploaded another patch to the bug which also indicates roughly what is left > to do. I am not sure of any time scales but the menu options can be > disable