El dilluns, 15 de gener de 2018, a les 13:00:13 CET, Rahul Chowdhury va escriure: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:25 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > > El dimecres, 10 de gener de 2018, a les 23:49:06 CET, Sayan Biswas va > > > > escriure: > >> Hi, > > > > Hi > > Hi, > > >> A very happy new year to all. Hope you guys are doing good. :) > >> > >> Me and Rahul (CC'ed; IRC nick - rahulch) came up with an idea for a > >> new application in KDE, and we were hoping to get an opinion on it. > >> > >> The central idea behind the app will be to manage the expenses of a > >> group of users. As a user, you can create one or more groups, add > >> members to them, and add entries for expenses for a given group. You > >> can also check the outstanding balances and choose to settle-up with one > >> or more members. There will be options for fine-tuning a given entry - > >> decide who all have born the total expenditure and by what > >> proportions, how should the total expense be divided among the members > >> (equally/specific amounts/etc), add pictures for receipts, add > >> comments, and so on and so forth. > > > > So somthing like a Splitwise Free Software clone, have you checked if one > > already exists? I know starting is half the fun, but maybe joining an > > existing project that does something similar and help them build a > > desktop application would also be nice. > > Yes, the idea is very much similar to Splitwise. They do not have any > desktop version yet. > We wanted to have some similar free desktop application in KDE. > > >> We are planning to start off with desktop application with a > >> decentralised > >> approach, i.e. the users will hold the data of the shared expenses. Now > >> again, there is a possibility of tampering with the expenditure so we > >> might > >> need to set a centralised archived or something similar data set to > >> maintain the integrity and persistence of a transaction. We are open to > >> opinions and discussions for this also. Further to that we will be > >> building > >> mobile application for the users ease of usage and add expenditure on the > >> go. After all, mobiles are more widely used by user than desktop > >> application. > >> > >> > >> For settling up we were thinking of integrating some standard payment > >> gateways (PayPal, etc) but I am not sure of how much of this > >> integration is possible in KDE. > > > > I don't understand this question, just open a webview to paypal and be > > done? > Not just open a webview or redirect to some paypal webpage in a > browser, but handle the entire transaction from the application itself > with some third party integration like PayU. If we could integrate one > or more such payment services/e-wallets with the application and > handle the paments it would be great.
Honestly, up to you, but opening a webview is easier and more secure, or at least you shift the blame to paypal if they have a hackable page. Rolling up your own payment code means it's much more easy to make a mistake and get hacked like it seems happened to oneplus. Cheers, Albert
