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Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-11-14 03:55. Bag of Software
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I just discovered Grisbi. It's a cool financial/personnal accounting application written with Gnome and Gtk, and it is released under the GPL licence. It features budgeting, a Win32 port and GTK2 interface.
You check out the screenshots, but don't let the French scare you- it has an English translation.

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The point of view of a Frog....

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2004-11-16 18:54.

I thought I would give my opinion as I am French...

I have been using Grisbi for 3 months now. I love it.

I main things I like :

1) being developped by French guys, it perfectly suits my needs, it kinda "talks" to me and is very intuitive to use.

2) It has just what the features I need/want, not more, so it's a joy to use.

3) I like the look and feel

4) loads/starts in an eye blink

5) it's very small, only 600KB and is very easy to compile, which is important as I am hardly a programmer and usually fail to compile whatever I try to compile, no matter how simple (Muine for example :-/ )

I have had a quick look on gnomefile.org for the other two programs mentionned on this page. I don't think I will even give them a try, as both of them have a horrible "windows like" (or KDE like...) icons. simply turns me off. And one of them is really too small (56KB!), needs growing/maturing.

Gnucash is way too big and general purpose, too much work learning and using it. However I do not think Grisbi could suit other countries/people like it suits French people, simply because it IS suited/designed to suit perfectly French banking. I don't think that translating it in English will turn it all of a sudden make it suitable to any english speaking countries...
So in short, I am glad to have Grisbi, and I am glad there is Gnucash, that's general purpose enough to suit people from all other countries.

The only problem with Grisbi is that there are only 3 people working part time on it, so developpment is very slow, eventough it is released every 2 months. That said it's already perfectly useable, so any further work on it is a bonus really.

Vince.

Argh.. the source and many va by Anonymous George

Oh and I forgot to say that t

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-18 10:40.

Oh and I forgot to say that translators are doing the translations from English version.

--benj

If you look closer to the sou

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-18 10:39.

If you look closer to the source, you would notice that part of it is in English. The original developer don't speak English, this is why he wrote this program in French ... better than nothing, isn't it?
For your information, we are translating it slowly in English, but this just takes time.

Oh, and thank you for calling me "shitty nationalist", this is really a pleasure. Next time, please have a look at the website and see that we are translating it with help of various contributors into several languages, including German, Spanish, Swedish, German, Rumanian, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Despite requests for help, no English native speaker even dared proofreading our bad English translation. How fun, looks like non native English speakers have to do their best while native English speakers don't even realize their luck!

-- benj on behalf of Grisbi developers

As opposed to the shitty nati

Submitted by michiel on Wed, 2004-11-17 12:31.

As opposed to the shitty nationalists who write their programs in English, eh? ;)

humorous

Submitted by xav on Mon, 2004-11-15 12:46.

Just a useless comment to say to non-French speaking people that the fake names on the screenshots are really funny :)

Grisbi vs MyBudget

Submitted by Aragorn on Mon, 2004-11-15 11:23.

Does anyone know how this compares to MyBudget ?

why?

Submitted by joschi on Mon, 2004-11-15 03:20.

I'm curious, why does grisbi exist? whats wrong with gnucash? is it just a different target user?

simplicity

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-18 10:53.

Grisbi is intended to another audience : we are aiming at making a program that is simple to use, yet powerful. Also, we do not want as much dependencies as Gnucash. We do not want to add business features or somethink like that, we want a program that my grandmother can use. ;-)

And Gnucash is mostly written in Scheme, that makes it difficult to contribute to if you do not know it.

What about Kurush and MyBudge

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2004-11-15 18:19.

What about Kurush and MyBudget? Are they similar to this and Gnucash? Why 4 programs that do the same?

a few hypothesis

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2004-11-15 11:07.

Maybe someone (or group of people) decided that they could do a better job, wanted to see if they could do it on their own, didn't have a feature they wanted in gnucash or something else. Either way grisbi doesn't hurt gnucash, they can both trade source code and both improve by having a bit of "competition".

Problem with gnucash

Submitted by silux on Mon, 2004-11-15 16:21.

This should have been a reply to the parent-parent thead sorry :-(

The problem with gnucash is that its just to bloated. Now before this starts a flame session let me say that I think gnucash is great its a very powerful program. That being said it has a billion dependancies and you have to babysit them a lot. It also has way more features than the average person needs, which actually makes the program more confusing.

http://siluxx.net

why?

Submitted by joschi on Mon, 2004-11-15 03:19.

I'm curious, why does grisby exist? whats wrong with gnucash? is it just a different target user?

Yes!

Submitted by link on Sun, 2004-11-14 23:59.

I've been looking for something like this forever! I even started writing my own just to get by. This fills one of GNOME's largest application gaps.

Euro Only?

Submitted by sirmikester on Sun, 2004-11-14 21:25.

I tried this program a month ago, and it only let me do my accounting in euros... it supports other currencies, but I think the euro is the only one you can actually do anything with in the program.

Well, it is true that the cat

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-18 10:49.

Well, it is true that the category, payees and budgetary lines panels are very euro-centric. Otherwise, there is no distinction between euro and other currencies as long as you configure your accounts to use another currency and configure reports to use specific currencies.

This is being worked on.

-- benj on behalf of Grisbi developers

My French is rusty ...

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2004-11-14 20:22.

... but in the FAQ they say that QIF import is very strict right now, and won't work with the buggy QIF exported by most bank websites.

If they get that ironed out, sweet.

The QIF import engine is stil

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-18 10:44.

The QIF import engine is still strict, but it usually succeed most of the times since it tries to bypass commin QIF errors from buggy files. Thought, I cannot guarantee it will work with all banks since most of them produce buggy files.

Users that can't import QIF from their banks are encouraged to send us excerpts of their QIF files so that we can support them.

-- benj