QIF doc pages

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Feb 24 12:10:07 EST 2008


Hi,

Quoting Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I thought they should be shown by default..  Are you sure
>> that you're picking up the default schema settings?
>>
>
> The option to turn on/off QIF doc pages doesn't seem to be part of the
> default schema settings. I guess I should put together one of those
> "schemas" directories for the QIF importer, right?  Alternatively, we could
> just change the sense of the setting to "Hide documentation" rather than
> "Show documentation" so that doc pages are on by default, even if you blow
> away your .gconf settings.
>
> Any opinion?

That would work...

> -Charles

-derek

>
>> -derek
>>
>> "Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Charles,
>> >
>> > Oh shoot. I was under the impression that they were shown by default. I
>> > definitely agree with this. There is no point if they are not shown by
>> > default. On a side note, perhaps we should have a check box in the druid
>> > that allows users to turn them off from the druid itself (like on the
>> apply
>> > page)? The check box is in the preferences and I might not have known
>> about
>> > it if I hadn't done development on the QIF druid.
>> >
>> > As far as how to do it, I would imagine you would have to do something
>> along
>> > the lines of editing a default schema somewhere in the source tree but I
>> > couldn't tell you for sure as the code isn't in front of me atm.
>> >
>> > Ian
>> >
>> > 2008/2/23, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> The QIF importer druid has "doc pages" that benefit new users by
>> >> explaining
>> >> the import process a step at a time, as the user makes his way through
>> the
>> >> druid. I think that new users would really benefit if these pages were
>> >> shown
>> >> by default (I certainly would have). However, GnuCash currently hides
>> >> these
>> >> pages by default.
>> >>
>> >> Do you agree that these pages should be shown by default, and if so,
>> how
>> >> do
>> >> I make this happen? The setting is controlled via gconf, so would I
>> have
>> >> to
>> >> add one of those gconf schemas perhaps?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Charles
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>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available



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