Re: Time -> Money Tracking

[Toms <toms baugis gmail com>]

Nice to hear that somebody's is making hands dirty in the code!
Certainly, one could write an external script. Trouble with that is
that it can't integrate in the interface.

Ryan's proposal seems to me a bit hackish and also out of the current
scope of hamster though.

Still i wonder if maybe we could allow adding pages to the overview
via some external script sitting in a predefined place in home folder
and subclassing an OverviewPage or something like that.
A limited plugin-system purely for reporting and visualising data.
Script would be a first class citizen of hamster world and could gain
persistence of settings via gconf, but mainly stay as eyes-only or a
quick-and dirty solution.

That way we would make a step towards tweakers but avoid case where i
would have to maintain branch of code i am not using myself.

The effort required to implement something like this shouldn't be too
huge - checking for files, verifying that they subclass what we want
and then talk to them just like we talk to the overview-totals.
And the result, apart from being a poor interface design choice, in
best case could turn out quite well.

Thoughts?

Toms


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Alex Hayes <alex alution com> wrote:
>> I am also a freelancer however I charge different rates for different
>> clients, even different rates for different jobs sometimes, so if a charge
>> per hour was going to be attached to something I think it would have to be
>> attached to a category so each category could have its own per hour amount.
>> However personally I wouldn't find this feature that useful - as I still
>> have to take my times over to gnucash and enter them in there against a rate
>> which calculates the amount charged to the client so I can produce an
>> invoice for them.
>
> Also with our current APIs it would be trivial to take data from
> hamster, filter it and import to gnucash or invoice directly without
> adding anything specific to hamster itself.
>
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