[Kmymoney-devel] Work on new envelope-budgeting feature

[Alvaro Soliverez]

Hi Josua,
As far as I can tell, no one else is working on this. You can start
working on github and we can move it to our repo if job progresses
enough.

As for the UI sketch, keep in mind this will have to deal with dozens
of categories, so you'll have to use some kind of scrollable list.
I assume this will tie into the existing UI in some way, right?

Regards,
Alvaro


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Josua Grawitter <josh at greyage.org> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> TLDR:
> I'm starting work on an alternative Budget View which facilitates the
> "envelope method" workflow.
>
> Long version:
> I recently started using KMyMoney, after I didn't want to put up with
> spreadsheets for my finances anymore. I'm very happy so far; it's definitely
> been an improvement. (Thanks a lot!)
>
> One feature I'm not convinced by is the current budgeting system. It seems
> very unflexible. It especially lacks the ability to permanently assign funds to
> certain purposes (eg categories).
>
> Mikael Kujanpää described the issue in this bug report a while back:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293302
>
> This style of budgeting is commonly called the "envelope method" because it
> can be implemented physically using cash and labelled envelopes:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope_method
>
> So instead of adding this to the ever-growing pile of feature requests, I'll
> try to do it myself as a summer project. Attached to this email is a basic
> sketch for the UI. I've also set up a branch on github to allow for
> cooperation until the code is ready to merge.
>
> https://github.com/gwater/kmymoney-envelope
>
> (If this should be done on KDE infrastructure, please give me a hint and I'll
> figure that out.)
>
> There are two questions remaining:
> Is anyone here working on something similar? Or is someone interested in
> working on this? If so, please notify me, so we can combine our efforts.
>
> Finally, please let me point out that I'm a novice at both C++ and Qt/KDE, so
> please don't expect miracles. I am a quick learner though. ;-)
>
> Regards, Josua
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