<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:19 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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Khalid, your experience with KMyMoney has been so positive that it outweighs your switching to GNUcash / accountant compatibility (?) ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I evaluated both many years ago, since I was converting more than a decade's worth of Quicken data, to stay away from Windows nad the constant upgrade treadmill of Intuit. <br>
<br>This was a long time ago, over a decade now, and for reasons I don't remember, I stayed with KMyMoney. Perhaps it was multi currency support at the time, or something. Really can't remember.<br> <br></div><div>
The accountant does not know what GNUCash is, nor KMyMoney. He wants the data in QuickBooks or SimplyAccounting format for the business. This way he can import it and cut the time copying stuff from Excel/CSV files.<br><br>
</div><div>I don't know of any open source application that produces these formats.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Although you will pry KDE out of my cold, dead, hands, I can't say I've successfully embraced the application ecosystem. e.g. I still use Thunderbird, Firefox, and LibreOffice, over Kmail, rekonq, and Koffice.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I use Firefox too, because of its ecosystem with plugins, Session Manager, NoScript, Cookie Monster, AddThis.<br><br></div><div>I also use LibreOffice when I am not using Google Drive for quick reports and such.<br>
<br></div><div>I don't use Thunderbird (bloated and slow).<br><br></div><div>I made a conscious decision not to tie my stuff into the KDE ecosystem. Why? Because it will tie my stuff to a desktop machine, and I want access from everywhere. On the phone, the tablet, ...etc. So Gmail and Contacts in there does the job.<br>
<br>I don't use Konqueror or Koffice.<br><br></div><div>Accounting is an exception to that. It is not something I do every day, and what I use balances with the bank, and that is it.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Along the way, I have become more inclined to use Google Docs when appropriate, so have even less motivation to use Koffice.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same here.<br> <br></div><div>The stuff I had on the Palm Pilot was synced with Yahoo, then transferred to Google Drive later. A couple of sessions to move my contacts from there to Gmail, and it was available in Android (phone and tablet) automagically.<br>
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Add in Android / Chrome, and the KDE knowledge transfer opportunities look to be decreasing, not increasing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't like Chrome that much. I have Chromium installed, and use it occasionally when I want to go to a site with full cookie and javascript, and it is too much to mess with NoScript and Cookie Monster on Firefox. <br>
<br>My main browser is Firefox still, on all platforms.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So GNUcash isn't so attractive as to move you off KMyMoney?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We converted from Quicken to KMyMoney a decade or more ago, and that was that. No incentive to move to something else, since it does the job, and it is grudge work anyway.<br>
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On 14-01-30 12:09 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
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And of course, there is KMyMoney for the KDE users, available in<br>
Ubuntu/Kubuntu's repositories.<br>
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It does pretty much whatever GNUCash is doing but a couple of years behind.<br>
That includes QIF import from your bank, multi-currency support, reports<br>
and graphs, ...etc.<br>
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And yes, I have been using it for several years for both personal<br>
(satisfactory) and business (which I don't recommend, since it does not<br>
provide the formats the accountant expects at the end of the year, and I<br>
use CSV output, and he hates that ...)<br>
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Since KDE users are a tiny minority in North America, I am not volunteering<br>
to demo it ...<br>
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