Hi all, I will answer to this question in a seperate private e-mail as there is another fellow German currently working on the same problem. Let's see if we can combine efforts at this stage.
If things work out, I will respond here with a status update. Please feel free to remind me in case I will forget. Thomas On Saturday 25 May 2013 19:06:25 christian-da...@web.de wrote: > Hello Developers, > > I am around for a while and wanted to enrich KMyMoney with online banking > capabilities – not only downloading statements but also sending transfers to > the bank. This mail is going to be a lot of text so to the topic... One > thing to mention: I am new to open source software development. So before I > continue coding I wanted to ask you for your opinion on my approach. > > A simple UML class diagram is attached. Described in words with reasons why > I think this method is good: > > > Transactions > > KMyMoney knows about all kinds of transactions (e.g. national transfers, > SEPA- transfers, other kinds of international transfers), and offers the UI > to create these transactions. Each kind of transaction is represented by a > class. > > The online banking plugin tells KMyMoney which kind of transaction it > supports for which account and restrictions for it (e.g. max. amount per > transaction, number of purpose lines). But I do not know how to that at the > moment. > > This allows to integrate online banking in KMyMoney, e.g. a warning "Account > xy dropped below minimum saldo.", can have a button to directly transfer > money from another account to solve that issue. > > > accountIdentifiers > > Furthermore I added the accountIdentifier classes. As far as I know only > three types of account identifications are used (national, sepa, swift) - > world wide. > > In a later step these accountIdentifers can be added to payees stored in > KMyMoney and used for a auto completion feature in the transaction gui > (therefor they are separated from the transaction classes). > > The class germanAccountIdentifier can be used to implement the validation of > german account numbers and bank codes and to determine the bank name from > the bank code. > > > At the moment my proposal is of interest for users with German bank accounts > only, because only aqbanking supports transfers. However, my draft can be > transfered to all other countries as well. > > > Are you interested? > > The attached patch includes my start of the approach. It is very basic and > does not use a lot of KMyMoney internals. Especially the implementation of > the GUI is ugly. But the classes described above should be quite okay. > Still it is far away from being able to be shipped to master. > > Another question, can I use QML to create user interfaces? There aren’t any > in the git repo, has this a special reason? > > Looking forward to a discussion and any ideas and hints. > > Greetings > Chris -- Regards Thomas Baumgart GPG-FP: E55E D592 F45F 116B 8429 4F99 9C59 DB40 B75D D3BA ------------------------------------------------------------- The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. -- Bruce Ediger, bedi...@teal.csn.org, on X interfaces -------------------------------------------------------------
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