Hi, Unfortunately no, we haven't started with the project yet. The last few months have been super busy and I did not get to spend much time on this. We are still trying to figure out whether this should be a part of KMyMoney or an individual application.
Regards, Rahul Regards, Rahul On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 9:18 PM Alexander Potashev <aspotas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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