Gnucash 2.0 mini-review
Aug. 10th, 2006 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmazeI built Gnucash 2.0 from source (to run on my AMD64 Ubuntu Dapper laptop; there are a couple of i386 builds but no obvious AMD64 ones). It's all GTK2, which is marginally shiny. And while I appreciate that that was a fair bit of coding effort, and a lot of infrastructure got rewritten for it, that's about it. As a user, the graphs are slightly less pretty; faster to draw, but still very slow to collect all of the data from a multi-year file, and still with user-configurable number-of-pixel sizes (what was ever up with that?). Stock lot tracking is useful, but the system doesn't seem thrilled about trying to collect up a lot where transaction 1 is "buy" and transaction 2 is "sell, plus record the capital gain somewhere" (which I thought was the documented way to handle this in Gnucash 1.8).
I think the big visible disappointment is the budgeting code, though. There's a "new budget" option, which creates a new account window with columns for future months. So far so good. You can enter numbers into the columns manually. But the "take your best guess button" pops up a dialog box that seems to cause nothing to happen. Documentation is scant-to-absent; the best writeup seems to be a wiki page that largely recounts past failed attempts and email battles.
End verdict: I wouldn't run out to upgrade...but if your Linux distro comes up with the new version (as presumably Ubuntu Edgy Eft will in October) I'd take it.
I think the big visible disappointment is the budgeting code, though. There's a "new budget" option, which creates a new account window with columns for future months. So far so good. You can enter numbers into the columns manually. But the "take your best guess button" pops up a dialog box that seems to cause nothing to happen. Documentation is scant-to-absent; the best writeup seems to be a wiki page that largely recounts past failed attempts and email battles.
End verdict: I wouldn't run out to upgrade...but if your Linux distro comes up with the new version (as presumably Ubuntu Edgy Eft will in October) I'd take it.
