Ok, I finally got some screen shots put together for my ideas on the budgeting interface in gnucash. They are really rough but give you an idea of the direction I would like to head. You can find them here:
http://www.darin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ They don't really show any new ideas which haven't already been covered in the discussion so far but I find that laying things out in a (semi) concrete way often helps me focus and refine my ideas. Although I personally prefer the workbench style approach there might be a better way to tackle this. I personally think that separating the UI (as well as the data) would make for a better user experience. I agree with the sentiment that budgets and account trees should be separate entities. One *is* an essentially imaginary, pie in the sky concept while the other is concrete (often depressing...) reality. They are definitely linked (categories have related accounts) but are not one and the same. However my hope is to create a set of data which could be used in other parts of the application hopefully enabling a wealth of financial planning features down the road. But for now we have to start somewhere. I am hoping to flesh out some ideas for the data structures over the next couple days and then get to the business of spewing out code. I don't know how far I will be able to get in the next few weeks but I am hoping at the very least to get some sort of foundation in place. After that I will be back to part time work on this as I will be moving house across the ocean and doing some hard core job hunting! Thoughts/criticisms/concerns are as always welcome. :) Cheers, Darin _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
