Going to the first KDE Finance meeting

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It's still pending the KDE e.v.'s board budget approval, but if everything goes ok, we are going to have our first meeting during the final days of April in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Developers from Kraft, Skrooge, Association Subscriber Manager, and KMyMoney are going to get together to discuss how we can integrate our applications and work together to have the best finance application stack for free desktop users.

One of the main topics will be FinanceStack, a planned engine to integrate the workflow of our applications and exchange data among them. We could even add data resources to it, so that online banking, file import/export, and online quotes could be done through it. This might be the beginning of a new pillar of KDE, like Akonadi or Nepomuk are today. Time will tell if it can live up to the expectations.

Other work will include our much-delayed work on a common set of icons, a common glossary, and I'm sure a lot more subjects will come up once we meet in person and start talking. So far, there is a very good tone in the mailing list and that will improve even more when are face-to-face.

What the meeting will be not, is a merge of the applications. For those who ask why KMyMoney and Skrooge don't merge, that will not happen, at least not in the foreseeable future. We have a very good relationship and we work together where it makes sense, but we are not merging our projects or with any other applications.

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User cases

Hi,

Thanks for your great work - I use Kmymoney daily and just installed the 2nd beta to test.

Would it be possible to identify the user cases for each application in the Finance Stack so that a user can decide why and which application is the best fit for their requirements? Maybe a cheat sheet on userbase?

Regards

Matt Parry

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Each application should have that on userbase

The feature list and expected audience should be on userbase, so there's no sense duplicating information. At least I know KMyMoney has that, even if it is not as complete as should be.

In the future, with the addition of integration among apps, we'll have to add a lot of documentation to explain how to do it, and what the applicable use cases are.