Re: [Sheflug] home accounts

[Harvey Kelly <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello peeps,

There was a similar thread running on debian-user a little while ago -
can't remember the outcome though ;) probably worth a rummage through
the archives Feb-Mar.

Harvey

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:02:22PM +0100, Eric E Moore wrote:
> "Chris J" <cej [at] nightwolf.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > 'ello all;
> >
> > Just having a poke about to see if there are any equiavlents to Microsoft 
> > Money, short of trying to knock summat up in a Star office spreadsheet, 
> > which might take a little time to do... :)
> >
> > Any ideas/recommendations? If its X based, I'd prefer it to not use Gnome 
> > or KDE libs[1], however the chances of finding /any/ X app that's free of one 
> > or the other these days is rare :(
> 
> It uses the gnome libraries, but I'm fairly fond of gnucash.
> 
> http://www.gnucash.org/
> 
> > I'm looking around at the moment, but just seeking personal experiences :)
> >
> > Chris...
> >
> > [1] they just eat up vast amounts of disk space with no obvious benefit 
> > that I can see...but that only IMO.
> 
> The benefit is they make making (good) applications easier on the
> programmer, hence the number of applications using them.  
> 
> I've worked with GTK a little, and with Xt and Motif even less, and
> I'd have to say, having a toolkit/library that doesn't suck (and GTK
> more-or-less qualifies) helps a lot.  Sure, you *can* write an
> application using just Xlib calls.  You could also probably not use
> the C library.  But why????
> 
> -- 
> Eric E. Moore


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