[PLUG] A challenge...

[Michael Robinson]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 09:20 -0700, Tim wrote:
> Maybe other people have had better success with TurboTax and Quicken via 
> Wine or Crossover but I fought for days trying to get either of them to 
> work correctly in either environment.  They would both install without 
> issue and sometimes start but there was always some type of problem that 
> would surface and make the program unusable.  I downloaded every 
> possible add on using Winetricks to see if it would address the buggy 
> issues but the problems continued.  My ultimate, and unfortunate 
> solution was to VirtualBox a Windows XP install for the programs and at 
> that point they worked flawlessly. 
> 
> I hope that others had more success.  I am still pretty steamed over the 
> incompatibility issues with those programs and that I was never totally 
> successful at getting them to run flawlessly on a Linux platform.
> 
> Tim

Okay, what in general over the 100s of Linux distributions is the same?
I'm probably not a good enough programmer, but I want to get a project
started to replace TurboTax and I like the idea of making an open source
framework for it.  Ideally, this program should only need X and a gui
toolkit that has been around since a long time ago.  It should work if
you are using TWM or FVWM or ICEWM and not be gnome or kde dependent.