Announcing GSoC project: User friendly UI for Gnucash

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Nitish,

Welcome in the GnuCash community. Your project looks very interesting. I don't 
have much Qt coding experience myself (next to none actually), but I'll 
probably check your work from time to time and perhaps can learn some from it 
as well ;)

I wish you a very enjoyable experience while working on your project.

Regards,

Geert

On dinsdag 24 mei 2011, Nitish wrote:
> Dear developers,
> 
> I would like to introduce myself. I am Nitish. I'm one of this year's
> GSoC students in GnuCash [1]. My goal in this project is to create a new
> improved user friendly UI for GnuCash using Qt. [2]
> 
> To explain in a few sentences. The project would allow a user to add
> basic transactions using a friendly UI, and be able to see the overall
> status in a view called First Person Overview (FPO). FPO would allow a
> user to customize what accounts he/she would like to see in a single
> window and be able to visually distinguish transactions from different
> accounts. A FPO consists of one or more viewlets. A viewlet consists of
> two columns, one containing transaction details and the other column
> containing total amount of the particular account of the particular date
> (might add more customisation options for amount column later).
> 
> My first steps were very promising and I like GUI programming in Qt. I
> was already familiar with some concepts of Qt like signals and slots,
> and since past few days I got familiar with Model/View framework in
> Qt. I am still in the process of understanding how to deal with its
> datatypes from C++ GUI code.
> 
> Currently I am coding up the basic data entry UI. This would allow a
> user to easily and quickly add a basic two split transaction through a
> form based interface (unlike current check book style). This should ease
> beginners to the software to get started with accounting.
> 
> I'd like to invite every developer here to have a look at the progress
> of my code. Some parts of the code will probably get committed into
> gnucash's SVN sooner or later, but the actual development right now can
> be observed in my github repository in the branch "txn-entry" [3]. Feel
> free to pull from this repository, compile the cutecash code (as
> described in [4]) from that branch and tell me what you think of this
> development.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate pointers, tips on the commits I make (github
> allows comments on individual commits). Especially when I could be using
> some other and better Qt technique.
> 
> Looking forward to a fun and productive summer of code in the coming
> months.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Nitish
> 
> [1] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-April/031836.html
> [2] http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-March/031594.html
> [3] https://github.com/nishmu/gnucash/commits/txn-entry
> [4] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Cutecash
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