On Jan 26, 2014, at 2:51 AM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another one - on the destkop we will probably always only have one gui (based 
> on one of Gtk, Qt, wxWidgets,...). But that interface would never be portable 
> to Android or iOS. Getting something done on these platforms will also be 
> easier if we'd have a self-contained portable library to start from.

wxWidgets does support iOS. Stephan Csomor, the Mac maintainer/developer, even 
got a wx-based game into the App store. Our current UI wouldn't work very well 
on a small screen like a phone or pod, but I think it would be fine on a 
full-size iPad.

>  
> It might even make interaction with other accounting software possible. That 
> would be mostly to the benefit of the other software but we're not 
> proprietary software trying to lock in users so that would still be a good 
> thing.
>  
> I'm not saying any of this is going to happen any time soon, but I prefer to 
> keep my options open. Personally I'm most interested in being able to provide 
> a decent solution on Android/iOS because it surely looks like tablets and 
> smartphones will become dominant computing devices for ordinary users in the 
> future.

If it isn't so already, it will be in another year or two.

Regards,
John Ralls


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