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GnuCash 1.9.0 Released
Grendel Drago writes "The GnuCash team have released GnuCash 1.9.0.
After literally years of waiting, GnuCash is now a GTK2 application. The current version is unstable, and testers are needed."
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Who's been waiting? I liked the application the way it is. With something as important as finacial tracking, there's no way I'd want to test it. I don't need a pretty ui to tell me I'm broke.
Why I would want a web browser that is able to browse the Internet inside an application that holds all my financial information? Sounds Microsoft Money-ish to me. I'd prefer to keep applications separate so there is less possibility that a malicious website could pull financial information off my computer.
Gnome2? Do you mean GTK2? there is a difference. Is there something I'm missing that links GNUcash to gnome other than they both use the same GTK2 toolkit?
Come on... they've just done a major conversion, and now it's testing time. OF COURSE it's going to crash. Why not channel your criticism into more constructive uses of your time and help with the testing?
So here is YOUR chance to save the world from buggey unstable money managment. Download it, and send it well written reports of any bugs you find.
What is wrong with all (most) of you?? All I see are flames here, toward GNUCash, how blah blah, it's unstable, blah blah, use KMyMoney, blah blah, the code is lame... I've been using it for 2 years straight and haven't had a problem ONCE. No database corruption, no corruption of any kind. THERE is your proof that GNUCash won't fuck up your finances.
I've learned so much about finances with GNUCash it's amazing - much more, I'm sure, than using some other program. The layout is very LOGICAL - maybe not the easiest, or prettiest (1.9 will probably fix the prettiness though) but crap... aren't we all about the functionality? Using "accounts" instead of "categories" is really cool IMHO - it allows so much more flexibility with what you're doing and doesn't corner you into doing things one certain way - it just teaches you how things are done.
Give me the name of another financial program that's able to track BUSINESS finances (not just personal), other than GNUCash. Now sit down, shut up and eat your beans!
GO NINERS! =p
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Good point. A well-written money management app would implement its own widget toolkit, graphing engine, database backend, network stack, C library, and floating point handler. After all, why leverage the work of thousands of others when you can re-write it all, poorly, yourself?
Don't be a jackass. No reasonable size application is written from scratch anymore. The KMyMoney folks decided to use the KDE framework, just like the GnuCash group used all the "Gnome cruft" instead. If you want something totally minimal, perhaps I could introduce you to vi, bc, and grep. Wait - scratch that - bc depends on ncurses and readline. It may not be "pure" enough for someone of your discriminating tastes.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Uh-huh. And I suppose when you hear "Microsoft releases buggy beta version of Vista", or "prototype car doesn't pass crash testing" you complain about that too.
I get the "idea." But, being F/OSS doesn't make it instantly the most awesome product available. No, Moneydance isn't that either; it is better than GnuCash, though. At least, it is better than the last version of GnuCash I used. I like free just as much as everyone else, but I like quality better.