GTT: Announce & Question

[Linas Vepstas]

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This is an announcement & a question to the developers:

GTT -- Gnome Time Tracker -- New version

Instead of banging on GnuCash, I've recently turned my attention to=20
Gtt, the Gnome Time Tracker, and added a bucket-full of new features.
These should be appearing in 1.4.0.99, and (a bit cleaned up) in the
final gnome-1.4.

The goal of doing this was to provide a way of gathering time-billing
data and tying it to gnucash, so that contracting invoices (e.g. at
law offices) could be easily prepared.=20

=46rom the NEWS file:
  -- Sub-project support has been added.  New projects can be listed as=20
     subprojects of other projects.  The time totals will show the total
     including sub-projects.  The Heirarchical tree can be expanded/collaps=
ed
     to simplify viewing.  The tree can be re-arranged by dragging-n-dopping
     projects.
  -- A journal showing explicit start and stop times is now maintained.=20
     Blocks of time can be annotated with memos.  The journal can be=20
     exported as an html page, or printed (ok, printer support not
     yet finished).
  -- Infrastructure for storing price & billing information has been
     put into place.  This will allow billing invoices to be generated.
     (not yet done, see below).
  -- The journal GUI is based on html-like pages.  This makes it
     relatively easy to create new reports and modify the format of=20
     existing reports.  Thus, custom reports, such as invocies, should=20
     be coming soon.  Hopefully, we'll also add a feature that allows=20
     custom reports to be designed from the GUI.
  -- The above features required an expanded way of storing data: and so
     there is now a new XML file format that stores both project and
     journal data.
  -- Export to GnuCash coming soon, I hope ...

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So, the 'big question': what is the best way of tying/integrating this
with gnucash?=20

At a minimum, it would be good to have gtt export something that gnucash
can import.  But what's the status on this?

I could export a QIF file (yuck).

I could export a gnucash-format xml file, but I don't beleive that there
is currently any way of importing/merging-in 'fractional' xml files.
Would Dres, as the current maintainer of this code, have any comments
about this?  Is this easy? hard?  Could I get you to add this, or do
I have to buckle down and do this myself?


--linas


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