On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:24 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > 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
Yes, that makes sense. We will go ahead with the webview approach. Thanks for the suggestion. Regards, Rahul
