[Kmymoney-devel] Fuel Consumption Plugin

[Allan]

On 19/09/12 14:55, Florian Meier wrote:
> Hi,
> i am planning to write a fuel consumption plugin.
>
> At the moment, I note down my current odometer value at each fuel stop.
> Furthermore, each fuel stop appears in KMyMoney as expense of a specific
> category.
>
> My idea is to combine this and write a plugin where you have the
> possibility to enter some additional values for every expense of the
> petrol category:
>
> - odometer value
> - amount of refueled gasoline
> - if you have completely filled up your tank
>
>  From this (and the amount of money spend) you can create statistics
> about your fuel efficiency, driven distance, price of gasoline...
>
> Do you have any further ideas, remarks, hints for writing a plugin...
> before I start?
>
> Greetings,
> Florian

It might be an idea to post also to the user list, to see what other 
users think.

My initial thought is that, while I can see that this might be of 
benefit to some users, it doesn't seem to tie in to the purpose of KMM, 
and a free-standing app. accessing the KMM file, might be best, rather 
than a plugin, and would certainly be easier to develop.

So far as plugin writing is concerned, look at 
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials but beware of possible 
KDE3 versions.

Allan