Re: GnuCash page on GO site

[Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>]

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 16:47, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Where is there a released libgoffice I could pull down?

IIRC, gnome-office module in gnome cvs.

> Do you have a phrase-wheel?  :)

Ok, I just did a bit of research into this.

In Epiphany 1.0x this is a custom widget, a combination of the combo box
and glist which is rigged to update and refresh.

However, in 1.1x this is done properly using GtkEntry +
GtkEntryCompletion which are only available in Gtk2.4 (the URLs are
misleading so try and ignore them):

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/GtkEntry.html
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/GtkEntryCompletion.html

Jumping GnuCash to Gtk 2.4 would probably not be a bad thing since most
of GO will be headed that way at some point in the future.

> Are there any docs for gsf?  I certainly couldn't find any.

Isn't there a readme with the download/cvs?  (Jody?)

> > 9/ libgda
> >     No need to write your own data base access routines.
> 
> That's not true.  We would still need to convert from the schema to
> our objects (and back).  That's true regardless of whether we use gda,
> dbi, or odbc.  The amount of work we have is about the same in all
> cases.

Apart form gda can (or should be able to) do both dbi and odbc for you,
whereas odbc and dbi don't offer anything other than themselves. ;)

> The fact that none of these db interfaces support NOTIFY is a problem
> for us.

You're best querying this one (and anything gda related) with Rodrigo
and/or the gnome-db team.

> Why is a "piechart" over the top?

Where do you draw the line? ;)  Anyway, the fact is it isn't part of gtk
nor ever will be, but is part of libgoffice and guppi is dead.  So that
nicely narrows your options to a dead library or an up-and-coming one
that is well designed and well maintained.

Btw, I'm really glad you're strongly considering GO integration, Derek. 
I think it'll be an extremely positive move for both GO and for GnuCash.
-- 
- Charlie

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