Challenging python coders: Who can create a gnucash-like GUI in python in a few weeks?

[Graham Leggett]

On 10 Jan 2011, at 12:24 PM, Christian Stimming wrote:

> We've been discussing various future directions for gnucash,  
> including a switch to a different programming language for the GUI  
> code [1]. GUI coding in C sucks. Because of this, I've experimented  
> with C++/Qt and was able to write up a usable gnucash-like register  
> window GUI in 2-3 weeks which already includes features that are  
> unavailable in "conventional gnucash" [2]. I chose C++/Qt because  
> I'm very familiar and productive with that platform.

Something that would be really awesome would be to look at the GUI  
code in such a way as to ensure that writing the GUI code for the  
native platform would be simple and easy to do.

In other words, it would be awesome if there was a native MacOSX  
version of gnucash, that used the Cocoa interface natively, and a  
native Windows version of gnucash, that used the Windows APIs  
natively, etc.

I think rather than focusing on a GUI, rather focus on a clean API to  
the gnucash core, that a GUI might call easily. That will free up a  
python coder to use the python bindings to make a python based  
interface (as you've suggested), or a Cocoa coder to make MacOSX  
bindings, etc.

Regards,
Graham
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