features list redux

[Jon Lapham]

Christian Stimming wrote:
>>1) Easy to Use  (I think we should put this first.  We want to get
>>people to try GnuCash, and the perception of most finance software is
>>that is it difficult.)
>>
>>   a) Documentation (we have decent online docs)
>>   b) Easy to Use Menus (conform to gnome human interface guidelines)
>>   c) Quick and Easy Account Reconciliation
>>   d) Mortgage and Loan Repayment Druid
>>   e) Import methods, interacts with your other software/banks
>>      (QIF, OXF, HBCI)
>>   f) Reports (pre-built, supports graphical views)
>>   g) Scheduled Transactions (no need to reenter repetitive txns)
> 
> 
> In Germany things would get ordered differently: a, b, e, f, g, d, c  -- 

You win (as the only person with a preference!).  I'll switch 'em around.

>>There are still some features missing, I'm not sure where to put them:
>>"Written in C"
>>"File access is locked in a network safe manner"
>>"Provides byte-stream format"
> 
> 
> The last one is no longer true. Whatever. These three can IMHO be skipped 
> anyway.

Plonk!  Consider "Provides byte-stream format" gone.  :)

(I'll send a patch to fix the README file later... if I remember)

Now, if only I could figure out how to hide the other two.  Maybe they 
should simply not be included?  Certainly the "written in C" isn't going 
to draw new users, but the "network safe file access" may be interesting 
to mention...

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