Announcing a new sub-project in gnucash: GUI in C++, Qt, CMake.

[Colin Law]

2010/3/4 Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>:
>...
> Announcing a new sub-project in gnucash: The non-GUI parts are re-used in the
> state they are, in the C language. This means the double-entry principles and
> all of the other achievments in the "engine" and xml-backend and eventually
> other backends can be re-used. But the GUI is rewritten completely new, from
> scratch, in C++ and using the Qt toolkit. Fun again. The build system is CMake
> because its configuration runs magnitudes faster. Fun again. And as a final
> bonus, for MS windows more compiler than before are supported, namely this
> whole new project can be compiled by MS Visual Studio as well. So here it is:

If doing a major rewrite of the UI, has the idea of a browser based
I/F been considered?  This then potentially opens the door to useful
features such as remote access from mobile phone, easily configured
html based reports and so on.  Will re-working in C++ really do much
for the user?  Would it be as much fun for the developers as browser
based technology?

Colin