Re: Are There Plans For A GUI Overhaul?

2016-10-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 5, 2016, at 6:34 AM, Dave wrote: > > Thanks for the great responses! It does clarify quite a bit. > > > From the looks of things, it seems that the C -- C++ port would have the > most impact right now. It would take me awhile to get my C/C++ abilities > ramped

Re: Are There Plans For A GUI Overhaul?

2016-10-05 Thread Ted Creedon
As a retired Senior Project Manager responsible for maintaining many million lines of code I offer the following advice: 1. Stop and think. 2. Mark up the existing GUI's to indicate changes. 3. Write the New User's Manual and the System Adminstrator's Guide and Reference manual (tedious) 4.

GnuCash additional capability Translation

2016-10-05 Thread Mohamed Yassin
Hello Dears GnuCash, I really appreciate your effort in free open source software, i came here now just today :) and i see that there under feature: GnuCash handles internationalized dates and currencies. The application's menus and popups have been translated to 21 languages, including

Re: Custom .scm script: Query account balance

2016-10-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 5, 2016, at 1:35 AM, Eric Wheeler > wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Eric Wheeler writes: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I would like to update our invoice .scm template to include a

Re: GnuCash additional capability Translation

2016-10-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 5, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Mohamed Yassin wrote: > > Hello Dears GnuCash, > > > I really appreciate your effort in free open source software, i came here now > just today :) > > > and i see that there under feature: > > GnuCash handles internationalized

Re: Are There Plans For A GUI Overhaul?

2016-10-05 Thread Dave
Thanks, Jon and Ted. John, you inspired my optimism. Ted, you gave me a healthy dose of caution. :) So, I've done SysAdmin work for a living. In this field, lines of code are thought of as liabilities. If I can get something done with 10 lines of BASH code, I'll probably do it. Almost always,

Re: Are There Plans For A GUI Overhaul?

2016-10-05 Thread Ted Creedon
If you read and understand Scott Meyers books you're good to go. From: rhymeswithd...@gmail.com on behalf of Dave Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 8:44 AM To: Ted Creedon Cc: John Ralls;

Re: Are There Plans For A GUI Overhaul?

2016-10-05 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 5, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Dave wrote: > > Thanks, Jon and Ted. > > John, you inspired my optimism. Ted, you gave me a healthy dose of caution. :) > > So, I've done SysAdmin work for a living. In this field, lines of code are > thought of as liabilities. If I can get

Re: Are There Plans For A GUI Overhaul?

2016-10-05 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear Dave, some additional voice on this topic: I'm the author who wrote the alternative C++/Qt GUI program "cutecash" on top of the internal gnucash "engine" code. That was in 2010. To my surprise, the code (with some minor fixes that I committed today) still compiles, links, and runs. Just

Re: Are There Plans For A GUI Overhaul?

2016-10-05 Thread Christian Stimming
On Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2016 21:34:51 CEST Dave wrote: > Thanks for the great responses! It does clarify quite a bit. > > > From the looks of things, it seems that the C -- C++ port would have the > most impact right now. It would take me awhile to get my C/C++ abilities > ramped up again.