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- Subject: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux
- From: richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:01:18 -0800
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Derek wonders: > As a long-time GnuCash user and developer, I'm curious what exactly you > mean by this. What UI issues do you have/see in GnuCash? And have you > let the GnuCash team know about them? I haven't used GnuCash, but I did download and take a look 2 years ago when I opted for MoneyDance. It's a big time investment, usually at least a couple of days, to import enough data and seriously play around with these apps to get a real feel for them--so the online comparisons of GnuCash, KMyMoney, Quicken, et al aren't terribly reliable. What I recall of GnuCash is that its screens and reports are each hard-coded and lack the universal drill-down-on-anything capability that I got used to with Quicken. I also want to be able to export whatever I see on the screen to a CSV or report file. At the time, GnuCash didn't have a mobile app; as an iPhone (rather than Android) user, it still lacks that capability that I've gotten used to with MoneyDance. Searching for reviews, I can't really find any that indicate these UI issues have really been addressed. The app's ChangeLog file is presented in raw form without summarization so it gives no hint as to the "real" changes of the past 2-5 years. The overall impression I get is that it's a lot like MythTV: great stuff circa 2006 but in need of a re-think and overhaul now that the era of mobile computing is mature. Exactly how to put that to the "GnuCash team" without mortally offending them, I'm not quite sure. My household systems are gradually getting weaned off Windows onto Macs (or Linux) so I kinda like the java-native cross-platform approach taken by MoneyDance: but it too has grown stale, in need of an overhaul. Like so much software I'm stuck with. -rich
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