Re: GnuCash page on GO site

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org> writes:

>> So, I find it unlikely the gnumeric custom widgets would be useful...
>> Unless you happen to have a phrase-wheel widget?!?
>
> I just thought that a lot of gnucash widgets were grid-like and gnumeric
> is all about flexible grids.

Unfortunately you thought incorrectly.  Only one object is a grid-like
thing, and that was easy to just port up to g2 -- it was already fairly
well abstracted anyways.

> Obviously there will be some instances like the phrase-wheel (like I
> know what that means) that must be home-brewed, but I would have thought
> (and this is a non-developer thinking) that there is an awful lot that

A phrase-wheel is something like a combo-box, but more-so.  It allows
the user to start typing in the Entry.  When the user stops typing (for
some period of time, say 1-2 seconds) it creates a popup (like a combo box)
with all the "matches" to the text the user typed.

I have an implementation in python, but that doesn't help us.  Know
anyone who could convert some python -> C?

> you could pull from elsewhere; thus alleviating many man-months in
> creating them from scratch and also sharing future responsibility (and
> conserving resources) rather than looking after it all under GnuCash.

Unfortunately you misunderstand where the time is being spent.  Most
of the problem is that a number of dependencies didn't make it from g1
-> g2, or that the APIs and Assumptions changed between g1 -> g2.  At
this point the g2 port mostly works; it's just missing a number of
features (ala reporting) due to dependency issues.

Even all the glade work needs to be updated to convert from g1 ->
g2...  It's just busy-work; busy-work which we don't have the cycles
to do.

> - Charlie

-derek

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