Closed csillaggyujto closed 6 months ago
Something I really need to think about like what kind of side affects might occur, rounding errors, changing conditions on 3rd sources. The basic idea at the very beginning was that the currency is just a "display thing" and the focus is more on keeping calculations and balancing buckets clean.
Of course I'm open for any kind of proposal and experimentation, I'm just expressing my concern here.
Some people has to deal with transactions in multiple currencies (living in east europe working for a Western corporation, I get my salary in EUR, and when I buy stuff online, I sometimes pay in EUR, GBP and USD. As well as transactions in the ... something trying to be sold as currency by the local "government". Other people may invest in Forex, crypto or stocks. Other people still may deal with fintechs giving them the ability to use multi-currency accounts, or just want to know exactly how much that tasty pálinka actually cost them the last time they were in Budapest...) Many other budgeting software can handle multiple currencies, but they are not as easy to use or intuitive as OpenBudgeteer. So my idea is:
Essentially, I'm looking at something like porting the multi-currency functionality similar to GNU Cash, while still keeping the user friendly features of OpenBudgeteer.