It's been rumoured that Robert Graham Merkel said:
>
> 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.
I think the sticky-too-sweet way of explaining this is the 'My GnuCash'
idea: every time you power it up, you see your own customized 'home
page' showing the financial stats that interest you most.
--linas
>
> 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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