[GNC] Gnucash 3 in the Debian / Ubuntu pipeline?

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 22, 2018, at 3:41 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
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>> On Aug 22, 2018, at 4:04 PM, GWB <gwb at 2realms.com> wrote:
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>> Why is gnucash in the Gnome ghetto for program categories?  Am I able
>> to run it in xfce because I already have the gnome dependencies
>> installed already?
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> That is probably an historical artifact. You can run it in XFCE as that is built on Gtk. If you try to run it on KDE, you can still run it, but it will pull in the Gtk dependencies. (that is, it won’t use QT which is native to KDE)
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> Somewhere long in the future, when/if GnuCash abides the MVC pattern, it will be easier to port the interface using a native toolkit such as QT, Cocoa, etc. At present, the functional code is very tied to the UI which is built using Gtk.

We do hope so, but easier != easy. Writing a GUI is a lot of work, and aside from the general design one must pretty much start from scratch every time. I don’t anticipate that core GnuCash will ever provide multiple GUI toolkit implementations.

Regards,
John Ralls