> Yes, it is _POSSIBLE_ to write an ncurses interface, but... > > a) it has not been done, > b) it would be a lot of work, and > c) there probably is not a lot of interest by developers to write it. > > I think that (b) is probably the largest deterrent. > > PS: Patches for an ncurses interface would certainly be accepted ;)
I'm not sure that ncurses would be the best choice for the "unsighted;" that leaves the user interface captive to an "ncurses program." It seems more likely to me that a scriptable command line user interface akin to that of MH would be more useful. Something like: % qfolder +Chequing Chequing+ has 273 transactions (3-479); % qpick -after 2002-09-01 -before 2003-02-01 -payee "My Landlord" 375 391 411 441 460 % qshow 411 Date: 2003-01-01 Payee: My Landlord Amount: 1175.00 Expense Account: Rent Currency: CAD Cleared: No ID: 879 % qrmm 411 1 Transaction deleted % This could probably be implemented quite readily for the SQL data storage scheme via a set of Perl/Python scripts, perhaps with some central storage of information about what "folder" you're looking at. The other reasonable approach would involve using the RPC-based access schemes. It would make /much/ more sense to do this as a set of commands ala MH than as a captive user interface using ncurses; that allows people to automate processes themselves... -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@cbbrowne.com") http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/mail.html#MH ``What this means is that when people say, "The X11 folks should have done this, done that, or included this or that", they really should be saying "Hey, the X11 people were smart enough to allow me to add this, that and the other myself."'' -- David B. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
