On Nov 4, 2007 10:50 AM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:44:21AM -0800, Robert Donovan wrote: > > >The really frustrating thing about Quickbooks is that, while it's easier > >to setup and use that SQLedger, it's still not that easy to use, but it > >DOES integrate well with US banks. SQLedger has much better > >security features and Internet functionality, but it can't do online > >banking in the US, nor can GNUCash. > > Which, unfortunately, is more the banks doing than anything about these > programs.
True, but that will be met with a reply the gist of which will be "not my problem" from the average QuickBooks user who wants to do online banking in the US. I'm not sure how to overcome this, but we, the Linux community, need to get together to find a way to get past this sort of thing or we risk condemning ourselves to also-ran status. > >Thus, you occupy precisely the opposite position of the average computer > >user who a) knows only Windows and is not really interested in learning > >anything else, and b) regards the command line as somethning just to > >the left of witchcraft, to be avoided whenever possible. I don't like that > >any > >more than you do, but that's our market. > > Apple seems to be doing a good job of making both groups happy. There > isn't any particular reason that Linux couldn't as well. It's just that > most of the Linux developers are in the same camp. Having a partly working > GUI is frustrating. > It's not like the Windows GUI environment is really all that good. It's > just what people are used to. It's also where all of the software is. I do wish we could all agree an a standard GUI, features, tools, attributes, and a standard way to extend it to accommodate individual taste. This does not mean that the nonstandard stuff has to be discarded, just an aggreement on a common base to start from and an efficient way to integrate new stuff. I realize that this means nobody will be entirely pleased with the result, but too many degrees of freedom can have the effect of diluting effort and causing a lack of focus. To the degree that it hurts efforts to get Linux on the desktop, I think a bit of constraint might not be a bad idea. RD -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
