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

[Alvaro Soliverez]

Hello Lukas,
As Thomas said, I think the queue system could be fitted into Alkimia,
where it could be of use not only to KMyMoney but to other KDE finance
apps.

We have some code in playground that handles storing transactions, but
it will need some love, and a DBus interface before it is of use. It
could be a starting point for what you want to do, though.

Feel free to ask for any questions.

Regards,
Alvaro

KMyMoney development team


2010/8/2 Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de>:
> 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.
>