[Kde-finance-apps] Introducing Koo

[Alvaro Soliverez]

Hello Albert,
welcome to the group. I'm sure we will find common issues to help each other.

For the graphs, in KMyMoney we use libkdchart. It's a graph lib
developed by KDAB and used in KOffice. It's a model-based lib, and
it's fairly to get started with it. I can point you to the relevant
class in our code if you are interested.

Skrooge has graphics too, but I don't know what they are using.

As for the calendar view, have you tried reusing the KOrganizer
classes, or even providing a resource to open it straight in
KOrganizer? I think you could even instance it as a KPart, and you
would be good to go if that's the functionality you need.

Myself, I'm very interested in your integration with Nepomuk. It's one
of our ideas for GSOC, and that would be very useful for all finance
apps.

See? We have more in common than you think. ;)

Once again, welcome.

Regards,
Alvaro


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Albert Cervera i Areny
<albert at nan-tic.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just wanted to introduce the Koo project to all kde-finance-apps members.
>
> Koo [1] is a client for OpenERP[2]/OpenObject[3] based on PyQt. It uses PyKDE
> if available, but by now, only for storing semantic information using Nepomuk.
>
> Although the official client for OpenERP is GTK based, with Koo we have some
> cool stuff, such as:
>
> - A model that can be used to access information on the application server
> from any Qt widget using interview.
> - Much better performance which allows using the client with a WAN between the
> client and the server.
> - Better API which makes creating new applications based on the platform a
> breeze.
> - Integrated full text search.
> - A POS mode useful for touchscreen applications, while still having all
> flexibility of OpenERP available. [4]
>
> You can see some old screenshots here [5] and some more up to date information
> in our blog [6].
>
> I must admit that it seems hard we can find points in common with other kde
> finance applications due to the fact that Koo uses a three-tier architecture
> and Python instead of C++, but for example, one of the things we're missing is
> an intuitive and powerful Charts API. We started using matplotlib, then
> created our own, and we're considering matplotlib again, but it's terrible API
> makes the decision pretty hard. We also had to implement a minimal calendar
> view, which really lacks behind GTK and Web based clients and it's something
> that would be nice KDE provided.
>
> Well, by now I'll be right here watching progress of kde-finance project, and
> I hope we can help with some stuff in the future!
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/openobject-client-kde
> [2] http://www.openerp.com
> [3] https://launchpad.net/openobject-server
> [4] http://albert-nan.blogspot.com/2009/02/koo-in-pos-mode.html
> [5] http://www.nan-tic.com/koo-platform
> [6] http://albert-nan.blogspot.com/
>
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