Matthew Vanecek writes:
> Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> A couple of questions that must be answered about something like that.
> Do you want it simply because Quicken has it, or because it looks cool?
> Those in charge would really have to look very hard at whether such a
> feature truly enhances productivity. Personally, I don't mind copying
> the concept of something else, with my own twists added. It does,
> however, need to make sense, both from a complexity standpoint, and from
> a useability standpoint.
>
> IOW, don't copy simply because the 'competitor' has it; rather, glean
> good ideas from what's available, and come up with new innovative
> ideas. I think the GNUCash team is doing a good job at that.
I haven't seen it myself - Bill, Rob B, and Linas have, and they think
it's a good idea, and the idea of letting the user set up what
financial information they'd like to see by default when they start up
GnuCash seems like a good idea. If they want just what they have now,
they can. If they want a plethora of fancy graphs and reports, they
can have that too. I've prototyped the idea, and I think it can be
done with a relatively small amount of code. As for usability, I
think I can make it fairly easy to customize both with code and with
the GUI.
You're absolutely right, though - you don't just blindly copy the
features of your competitor's product. That's what got us commercial
bloatware in the first place.
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