Sync with gnome releases¥@

[Lauren Matheson]

Isn't the proper way to connect with data sources for things like gnome
and evolution address books through bonobo?  I'm sure it is for
Evolution anyway because there has been banter on the evolution list
about address book data formats with some unhappy that it is db3
(favoring xml).  The response was that xml could easily be generated for
export, but that other apps shouldn't be directly accessing the data
file anyway.  There's some UI stuff still in with bonobo, but I think
that's being (or is now) split off.

Lauren
 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:56:43 -0500
> To: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
> Cc: gnucash-user@lists.gnumatic.com, gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Sync with gnome releases
> From: grib@billgribble.com (Bill Gribble)
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:03:10PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > Now, of course, I dunno what happens if/when we decide to manage accounts
> > and vendor lists with e.g. the gnome addressbook. 
> 
> Unless it can be used in a totally GUI-free way, I don't think it's a
> good idea to get tied to the Gnome address book.  I think it's good to
> use shared backends where possible, but in this case I think this
> means attaching to the same data stores the Gnome one uses rather than
> actually using its API.
> 
> If it's really important to embed the Gnome/Evolution addressbook, we
> should at least have a GUI-independent layer that would allow other
> front ends to be used.
> 
> I'm sort of itchy for a gui-free gnucash in case you can't tell :)
> 
> b.g.
> 
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