The Skrooge team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.7.3, containing a number of new features and bugfixes

New Features

• Better properties management: if a properties starts with http or file, skrooge understands it as a link and opens it as such. Files can also be added as a property using drag n' drop. In this case, the file dropped is embedded in the skrooge file.
• Addition of a select all option in the edit menu
• New dashboard component showing balance per bank
• New toolbar for selecting context, useful for small screen. Skrooge can also be run in full screen, which is also useful on small screen devices

• Skrooge is able to provide some advices on the dashboard, as shown in the above screenshot
• Better print management

Per operation Balance

Let's focus for a while on a long time requested feature finally made its way into skrooge : display account balance for each operation:

Now, some may wonder why it took so long to implement such a basic feature, that exists in so many comparable applications. This is a side effect of our persistent undo / redo feature. Our undo / redo is basically capable of undoing everything you did since the file creation, if you wish to configure it so. And as we have to recompute the balance for each operation, after each operation insertion, modification or suppression, it could have had huge performance impacts. Stephane eventually came up with an implementation that suits him, so kudos to him for that ! However, if you still encounter some performances issues, please bug us.

It is possible that you can not see this column in the operations table after updating skrooge. If this is the case, you need to select it from the list of available columns. If the column balance is not available in the list, you may need to reset the table to its default state (yeah, I know this is not optimal...).

Bugfix

• Correction bug 245847: skrooge 0.7.3: 'pow10' was not declared in this scope
• Correction bug 246178: Dashboard "Income & Expenses" widget counting transfers
• Correction bug 246408: Skrooge prints hardcopy
• Correction bug 246977: In reports from selected data the date selection should be all data
• Correction bug 249955: No password request after hardware crash
• Correction: Do not authorize creation of operation with "-------"
• Correction: In report, capability to create history with of property
• Correction: In report, do not allow hiding table or graph by resizing
• Correction: Import QIF with !Account section containing more than one account and with D attribute (Thank you Dennis :) )

Get it, Try it, Love it...

Grab Skrooge from your distro's packaging system. If it is not yet included in repositories (What ??? Are you kidding me ???), go get it from our website, and bug your favorite distro for inclusion.

Get Involved

To enhance Skrooge, we need you ! There are many ways you can help us:

• Submit bug reports
• Discuss on the KDE forum
• Contact us, give us your ideas, explain us where we can improve...
• Can you design good interfaces ? Can you code ? Have webmaster skills ? Are you a billionaire looking for a worthy investment ? We will be very pleased in welcoming you in the skrooge team, contact us !