1.8.10 requires kde :(

[Peter O'Gorman]

Martin Preuss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Saturday 18 December 2004 15:37, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> [...]
> 
>><prefix>/lib/aqbanking/plugins/0/wizards/aqhbci/kde_wizard for the hbci
>>setup. This is a little annoying for a gnome-1.4 app. I don't think that
>>these changes should have been committed to the stable branch, I was
> 
> [...]
> Would you please bear in mind that it is not Gnucash which requires KDE, it is 
> a setup program for one of the AqBanking modules which does (and this tool 
> even does not require KDE, it only needs QT, this is an important 
> difference).
> 
> AqBanking is a library which can be used by any graphical and non-graphical 
> frontend and which was first used by QT/KDE applications.
> 
> However, so far only a QT-Setup tool exists, mainly because nobody volunteered 
> to write such a tool for GTK1. 
> 
> And I guess nobody ever will, since GTK1 is not the most recent GTK (to say 
> the least). While it is compact, fast, stable and powerfull it is also 
> outdated, which means nobody wants to create new GTK1-based applications.
> 
> You can still use Gnucash without AqBanking if you like, but if you need the 
> most recent HBCI support you might end up wanting AqBanking (in which case 
> you would need the only setup tool currently available, or even better write 
> a new setup for GTK1 which I would gladly support).
> 
> The previously used OpenHBCI is no longer supported by their respective 
> authors (e.g. me), because it is *very* outdated, so switching to AqBanking 
> is the only way of maintaining HBCI support for GnuCash.
> 
> Someone could write a GTK2 tool, and in the far future there are plans to do 
> so. But please keep in mind that most of the people here (and *all* of the 
> people at AqBanking - me) do this in their (little) spare time without 
> getting paid. So shouting here might not be the best way to motivate people 
> like me to write a GTK setup tool ;-)
> 
> 
> regards
> Martin (Author of AqBanking)
> 
> 

Thanks for responding. I can live with a Qt dependency, I am not happy about 
it, but am happier than a full out kde dependency :)

I guess I'd better go about installing Qt.

Thanks,
Peter
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