good time tracking/billing software?

April 9, 2007 Posted by mitch | projects, work | 0 Comments

Is it me or aren't there any decent open source time tacking/billing/invoicing? I'm looking for something with a client side GUI, don't think I'd really care about what kind of database back-end it has.... I'd just like a desktop app that can track projects and time spent on it. With an option for reporting and invoicing. I've been using GnoTime and I find it lacking. Its interface is unintuitive, and reporting features are somewhat lacking for what I want to do. I've been trying to figure out how to customize some reports for it. What I want is to be able to select a main project, and show total of whats been billed, whats paid, whats waiting to be paid ect... But be able to make that go narrower, down to a specific task if needed and still show the same things. GnoTime can do this, except for the reporting doesn't seem to work right. And as I said, the reporting is lacking. If I could find an easy way to create the GUI, I'd start working on all the backend stuff to create such a thing, but I find the free GTK+ Design tools kind of odd... I'm not a GUI designer in any sense of the word, so it could most definitely be me. But I've had to design some fairly ugly VB apps in the past and those were easy enough to create.... Wondering why there isn't something comporable for GTK+? I don't really want to do it in QT mostly because I use Gnome as my desktop and I want it to follow whatever theme I happen to be running at the time. Anyway, I my just happen to write one(in python), one of these days if I can find a suitable GUI builder.