It's been rumoured that Matt Armstrong said:
>
> I just ran across a personal finance package for Gnome:
>
> http://jagger.me.berkeley.edu/~dfisher/gnofin/
>
> Its goals are much simpler than GnuCash. It even claims that "if you
> are looking for a feature-rich money management application, you
> should really consider using GnuCash instead."
The screenshots resemble the older xacc from which gnucash descended.
Given the mail I get, it seems like xacc is plenty enough for a lot of
people; I suppose that there must be some sort of lesson in the
creeping-featuritis that gnucash has (and that is I suppose my fault).
One lesson I would draw from this is to maybe have beginner/intermediate/advanced
modes for gnucash, and/or have these as separate executables. The current set
of menu entries, & the dialogue layouts are kind of "intermediate" in
nature, and may be a bit daunting for the beginer.
The other lesson is that gnucash has been & continues to be too hard to build,
too hard to install for most folks. This is in great contrast to xacc (and
probably gnofin), which was a simple, self-contained system which "just works".
Finally I wonder if gnucash is too hard to develop for & debug, because its
grown big enough to have some significant internal complexity. I don't know what
can be done about this, if anything should be done, I suspect this is a fact of life...
--linas
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