Financial Or Budget App

[Chero]

Hello,

I've been trying to get a financial app working on my SL-C860.
Here are my results :

monager :
- compiles fine in debian chroot
- only uses qt-libs
- runs fine in chroot and on pdaX !!
- is quite basic - not many options
- could be used as "budget-overview"

kmymoney2 :
- installs in debian chroot
- runs, but sometimes (on suspend ?) locks up the debian chroot (some files and dirs are not tracable any longer until after a reboot ??)
- seems quite full-featured to me
- able to import quicken-files
- screens are set to 800*600 - so quite a lot of dragging screens around

kbudget :
- compiles fine in debian chroot (after installing the right libs and headers)
- more basic than kmymoney2
- screens fit
- runs quite smooth, but sometimes (on suspend ?) locks up the debian chroot (some files and dirs are not tracable any longer until after a reboot ??)
- as it has the same problem as kmymoney2, I think it's kde that locks up the chroot

gnucash :
- installs in debian chroot
- it has a font problem, the startup screen loads all plugins, but then it exits with the message that it has a problem with a font :

The font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*" does not support all the required character sets for the current local "C"
 (Missing character set "ISO8859-1"
Fatal error : cannot load fall-back font -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*

Does anyone know how to solve or workaround this font problem - I suppose (hope) it's quite an easy one, but I found a lot of font-dirs and don't know where to start.
Are there any alternative programs - or did I try them all ?

Cheers,
Chero.

[danr]

I've been trying a few financial apps out on pdaXrom as well.  I'm looking for something that can import qif files and work without kde (unless someone's compiled kde for pdaXrom ) .  The ones I've found are:

grisbi:
- gtk2 app
- works quite well.  Many (but not all) screens fit into 640x480
- fast to start up, but takes up a fair amount of memory (I load up seven years of data though)
- the most annoying thing is that it doesn't remember how wide you set the columns, and they're too narrow at startup

qhacc:
- qt3 app
- quite advanced; has graphing capabilities
- all screens fit
- supports multiple databases (e.g. MySQL, SQLite etc)
- importing qif files can take hours and hours (I had to split them into 1000 lines each, and they each took about 15 mins!)
- slow to start up with lots of data

cbb:
- tk app
- quite basic
- fast startup
- slows down with lots of data

ledger:
- command line interface
- I couldn't be bothered learning it - too much typing!

I have created ipkgs for these if anyone's interested (I can't find instructions on how to upload files to the pdaXrom site)

@chero: could you provide a link to 'monager' please?
I haven't tried any of the apps you suggest because they would be a nightmare to compile for pdaXrom  

Dan

[danr]

Forgot to mention, if you don't mind using Java, there's a few Java financial apps out there.  The only one I've used it jabp, which is basic but works quite well, although I have some problems with blackdown, notably the up key doesn't work; pressing left and right takes you to the start and end of the line; sometimes new windows are at their absolute minimum size... grr.

Dan

[pgas]

danr to upload ipk to the unstable feed contact Laze (mail pm whatever) give him a username/ password and you will be able to login on www.pdaxrom.org

[Chero]

@chero: could you provide a link to 'monager' please?
I haven't tried any of the apps you suggest because they would be a nightmare to compile for pdaXrom   

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[a href=\"http://www.jschulze-wenck.de/download/monager-0.2.1.tar.gz]Monager source download[/url]

I could mail the binary too (don't know how to create ipk though)

Chero

[Chero]

I have created ipkgs for these if anyone's interested (I can't find instructions on how to upload files to the pdaXrom site)

Dan
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Looking forward to trying these out, please post here when you uploaded them.

Thanks,
Chero.

[rdwtux]

I've compiled grisbi for rc8 and rc9. It does work, however when I actually use it (ie. import qif files, change prefs, etc) I end up getting more crashes than are worth the effort.  I started chatting with the Grisbi developers sending crash reports, etc but there we're so many I haven't found the time to complete it.