[Kde-finance-apps] [Kmymoney2-developer] Feature request: multi-client cooperation

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi all,
hi Lukáš,

on Monday 02 August 2010 15:23:34 Lukáš Doktor wrote:

> Dear kMyMoney developers,
> 
> first thank you for developing such a great app. I'm missing only two
> important things:
> 1) a queue system for multi-client cooperation
> 2) lightweight application for bill addition
> 
> ad1) I'd like to use this application concurrently on multiple
> computers. I can imagine a queue system which stores information about
> new bills/transfers which are stored when the computer connects.

Currently, it's not even multi-threaded (concurrent processes on the same 
machine accessing the data), so that might be a major addition. Would be 
interesting though.

> ad2) This is not exactly connected to kMyMoney. It requires only stable
> API for addition new bills. Possibly in the future this might use queue
> system from point 1. I'd like to use lightweight applications on my
> cellphone while I'm paying. After I return home I can send those bills
> to the application.

Such an application (nowadays called "apps" :) ) has been mentioned before and 
it is somewhere as a wish list item. Anyway, it goes along with the new 
project Alkimia (see http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KdeFinance/Alkimia for 
details and maybe

 http://dot.kde.org/2010/07/15/successful-kde-finances-sprint-held

for some historic background of the project) very well.  Please feel free to 
add use cases on http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KdeFinance/Alkimia/Usecases 
(maybe yours is already mentioned)

> I can offer you to create diploma thesis for booth of them as I think
> some students might be interested. I'd lead the student and force him to
> communicate with the upstream.
> 
> Can you please write me your opinions about those ideas?

I kind of like the idea, don't know about the other devs in the group. We do 
have some GSoC students working on different items in the Alkimia project.

Since your ideas are not only interesting for KMyMoney I want to drag the 
communication over to the KDE Finance mailing list at kde-finance-apps at kde.org  
Please send follow-ups to this mailing list.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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