Bug 107262

Summary:	(finance/mybudget) Requires extensive sample budget; can't simply delete entries; not very useful "out of the box"
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	User1001 <supraexpress>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description User1001 2006-12-28 05:20:09 UTC


Start myBudget and an extensive sample budget is loaded. There is no method for completely clearing out all "budget data" 
and starting with an "empty budget". Deleting "budget data" is a tedious line-by-line delete process. Attempting to start with 
NO "budget data" file causes myBudget to crash. Loading sample budget, perform one line addition, save to a new file via 
SAVE AS, then remove all lines but the added line, restart myBudget and it crashes with Python data format errors. The 
SAVE button in the toolbar does not appear to do anything - nothing shows up in a KTRACE output. Starting myBudget with an 
empty data file causes it to crash. Recent File list is hidden well enough to make it difficult to override what myBudget has 
collected (ie; remove one or more data files from the list, especially one that is empty). Not sure about the hardcoded 
Windows directory "D:\\Program Files" being good, bad, or indifferent under Unix with no Windows filesystem installed or 
attached (eg; I don't dual-boot Unix and Windows - don't use Windows at all).

Nice idea, but not user friendly for new users, impossible to create a "budget plan" from scratch (ie; no previously existing 
"budget data file"), unsure about required data formats (are dollar signs automatically added/assumed in "money fields"?), 
are "numeric fields" trully numeric, or just strings?

 Farily nice HELP facility, AbiWord export works OK - didn't test Gnumeric export.

Fix: 

Deinstall myBudget.

Comment 1 Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu freebsd_committer

2006-12-28 18:08:42 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This port is unmaintained so there are slim chances that someone will do 
anything about it (execpt if you want to send patches). Anyway, from 
your description the problems should be reported to the developers of 
mybudget (please do so).