On February 2, 2003 04:06 pm, E. Oltmanns wrote: > Hello altogether, > > first of all I'd like to beg your pardon if this isn't the place to > answer questions like mine. Please tell me the right address in that > case. > > A few weeks ago I searched in the inter net for home banking software > for linux. Thats how I got interested in GnuCash and especially in its > HBCI facilities. Unfortunately it turned out soon that GnuCash in its > current state is unusable for me because its a gnome based > application. I'm blind and therefore unable to use applications > running under the x-system. So my question is (you guessed it!) > whether it might be possible to write a console interface to GnuCash, > for example using ncurses or something similar. It might be most obvious > that I have hardly an idea about the problems related to such a > project. Perhaps you can think about the suggestion or explain the > reason why it should be impossible to realize a console solution.
I think some of GnuCash can be accessed from the command line (or used to), but I don't know which parts. Gnucash was designed as a visual app. A curses interface would theorically be possible, especially after the gnome2/kde ports, but it would be a very large undertaking. I suspect however that a "graphical" curses interface isn't what you want. I suppose a convenient interface for a blind person would have a very different design than the graphical interface that currently exists. I don't know if any of us have the skills to design such an interface. However, this may be of interest to you, it is a console front to the openhbci library: http://aqmoney.sourceforge.net/ -- Benoit Grégoire http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
