> On Aug 22, 2018, at 3:41 PM, Adrien Monteleone > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Aug 22, 2018, at 4:04 PM, GWB <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> 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? >> > > 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) > > 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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
