Skrooge 0.7.2 Released
Submitted by gdebure on July 24, 2010 - 13:50
The Skrooge team announces release of Skrooge 0.7.1, bringing the usual load of bugfixes and new features. Please note that this version requires KDE SC 4.4.x minimum, since we are using the excellent work from John LAYT on currencies, available from 4.4.0.
Also, for packagers, there is no direct dependency to SQLite anymore... SQLite is still needed, but the dependency is satisfied by the standard Qt SQLite driver.
The second day of the KDE Finance Sprint saw us doing more presentations regarding our respective applications (Kraft, KMyMoney, Skrooge), and working on two main subjects:
Developpers of KMyMoney (Thomas, Alvaro, Cristian), Kraft (Klaas, Thomas) and Skrooge (this humble author) have met Friday in Frankfürt, Germany, for the first KDE Finance Sprint. Arnaud, developper of Assuma (previously known as the way-too-long-a-name Association Subscribers Manager) could not make it due to real life issues.
Unless you've been living in a cave for the past weeks, you're probably aware that the Google Summer Of Code has been launched.
There are several proposals that will have a direct impact on Skrooge's evolution:
To all testers out there willing to help the Skrooge team, we have released a beta version.
Its main purpose is to get more feedback on imports / exports that Stephane has been working on. In this beta version Skrooge is able to import and export files for :
LemonPOS is a Point of Sale application powered by KDE 4.x. Its developper (Miguel Chavez Gamboa) asked in the KDE Finance mailing list for a bit of help spreading the word, so here is my (small) contribution to his project :o)
Dear Lazyweb,
One of the upcoming features of Skrooge is budget management. Most other financial apps out there do it pretty good, but we'd like to do even better :)
I'd like to get feedback from you on what you expect from a financial application regarding budget management. Here is our current view on it:
As previously blogged before, we've been working on KMyMoney and gnucash imports lately. These features are available from the SVN version. We're looking for people volunteering in testing these imports, so if you're interested in the KDE Finances group, give it a try and let us know if you have issues.
By the way, a big thanks to the KMyMoney team for giving us a file we can play with for our tests :)
