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

[Lukáš Doktor]

Hi,

thank you for interesting information. I didn't know about 
Alkimia/kde-finance projects and from the paper it looks amazing.

1) About multiple kMyMoney applications cooperation:
I can imagine a synchronisation plug-in for kMyMoney which might store 
id-id relations. In future it might check for duplicity and other 
features too. (for few clients cooperation)
Another solution might be id generation for all hosts (uuid?) and clean 
synchronisation. (for many clients cooperation)

2) About mobile phone application:
I can imagine a simple application (QT, java, Android, iPhone...) which 
creates the bills on the netbook/phone and plug-in/app for storing those 
information into the kMyMoney's database (or in future using Alkimia's 
D-Bus interface) on the target machine.

To be honest for me the second part is sufficient as I do the account 
managing on one computer, but I use multiple computers for bill addition.

If I have enough time I'll take a look at the Alkimia's D-Bus subsystem. 
Getting it work might be also an interesting diploma thesis topic 
(depends on the expected project death-line).

Best regards,
Lukáš Doktor

Dne 2.8.2010 17:18, Thomas Baumgart napsal(a):
> 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.
>