I looked at the "6 best personal finance apps for Linux" http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... ?artc_pg=1 and see a couple of possible alternatives to homebank...
Grisbi supports English and French languages. It is a GTK app.
http://www.grisbi.org/Grisbi is a personnal accounting application running under GNU/Linux and Windows, released under the GPL licence.
Our aim is to provide you with the most simple and intuitive software for basic use, and still very powerful if you spend a little time on the setup.
Grisbi can manage multiple accounts, currencies and users. It manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other informations that makes it quite adapted for associations (except those that require double entry accounting). The exhaustive list of Grisbi's functionalities can be found in the User's guide, paragraph 1.2.
Buddi supports several different languages and is available in several formats, including Debian, Slackware, and a generic Linux (as well as Java).
http://buddi.digitalcave.ca/Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.
Buddi is released as Open Source Software. You can download it for free, with no disabled features and no time limit.... Buddi will run on almost any computer which has a Java virtual machine installed. This can include Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, and many other operating systems.
Not that there is anything wrong with Homebank, but I was looking for something simple for a non-accountant to use. What do you think?
-Roy