Hi Rahul, Sayan, Did this project start? Where do I find the source code?
-- Alexander Potashev 2018-01-16 9:36 GMT+03:00 Rahul Chowdhury <rah...@kde.org>: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:24 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: >> El dilluns, 15 de gener de 2018, a les 13:00:13 CET, Rahul Chowdhury va >> escriure: >>> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:25 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: >>> > El dimecres, 10 de gener de 2018, a les 23:49:06 CET, Sayan Biswas va >>> > >>> > escriure: >>> >> Hi, >>> > >>> > Hi >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >> A very happy new year to all. Hope you guys are doing good. :) >>> >> >>> >> Me and Rahul (CC'ed; IRC nick - rahulch) came up with an idea for a >>> >> new application in KDE, and we were hoping to get an opinion on it. >>> >> >>> >> The central idea behind the app will be to manage the expenses of a >>> >> group of users. As a user, you can create one or more groups, add >>> >> members to them, and add entries for expenses for a given group. You >>> >> can also check the outstanding balances and choose to settle-up with one >>> >> or more members. There will be options for fine-tuning a given entry - >>> >> decide who all have born the total expenditure and by what >>> >> proportions, how should the total expense be divided among the members >>> >> (equally/specific amounts/etc), add pictures for receipts, add >>> >> comments, and so on and so forth. >>> > >>> > So somthing like a Splitwise Free Software clone, have you checked if one >>> > already exists? I know starting is half the fun, but maybe joining an >>> > existing project that does something similar and help them build a >>> > desktop application would also be nice. >>> >>> Yes, the idea is very much similar to Splitwise. They do not have any >>> desktop version yet. >>> We wanted to have some similar free desktop application in KDE. >>> >>> >> We are planning to start off with desktop application with a >>> >> decentralised >>> >> approach, i.e. the users will hold the data of the shared expenses. Now >>> >> again, there is a possibility of tampering with the expenditure so we >>> >> might >>> >> need to set a centralised archived or something similar data set to >>> >> maintain the integrity and persistence of a transaction. We are open to >>> >> opinions and discussions for this also. Further to that we will be >>> >> building >>> >> mobile application for the users ease of usage and add expenditure on the >>> >> go. After all, mobiles are more widely used by user than desktop >>> >> application. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> For settling up we were thinking of integrating some standard payment >>> >> gateways (PayPal, etc) but I am not sure of how much of this >>> >> integration is possible in KDE. >>> > >>> > I don't understand this question, just open a webview to paypal and be >>> > done? >>> Not just open a webview or redirect to some paypal webpage in a >>> browser, but handle the entire transaction from the application itself >>> with some third party integration like PayU. If we could integrate one >>> or more such payment services/e-wallets with the application and >>> handle the paments it would be great. >> >> Honestly, up to you, but opening a webview is easier and more secure, or at >> least you shift the blame to paypal if they have a hackable page. Rolling up >> your own payment code means it's much more easy to make a mistake and get >> hacked like it seems happened to oneplus. >> >> Cheers, >> Albert > > Yes, that makes sense. We will go ahead with the webview approach. > Thanks for the suggestion. > > > Regards, > Rahul