G2 Testing - Gnucash Preferences

David Hampton hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net
Wed Nov 2 19:50:14 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 23:37 -0500, Volker Englisch wrote:
> David,
> 
> I'm going through the Preferences after you made those changes:
> 
> > From my reading of the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines, the name for a
> > group of labels should have each word capitalized.  E.g. "Reverse
> > Balanced Accounts".  All individual preferences should be in sentence
> > capitalization.  E.G. "Use formal accounting labels".  I've updated the
> > preferences dialog to follow this pattern.
> 
> Looks OK.  You missed one entry though:
> Register tab - Auto-raise Lists should be Auto-raise lists

Fixed.

> I was wondering why the options under 'Default Currency' aren't 
> accessible with a keyboard shortcut?

Fixed.

> I have one additional issue:
> The keyboard key Alt-c does select the 'Use 24-hour clock' field but 
> does not toggle the check box.

That's a bad key choice. Alt-c should be the close button for all pages.
The problem with the access key not toggling the checkbox was because
the same key was mapped to two different element.  Works fine for me
now.

> >>d) General
> It's OK now but I found some additional issues.
> There is no keyboard key for 'New search limit'.
> The Alt-n keyboard key is used for two options:
>    - Show close button on notebook tabs
>    - Display negative amounts in red

Fixed.

> >>e) Online Banking - not tested since my HBCI is not set up
> It's OK now but I found some additional issues.
> There is no keyboard key for
>    - Show documentation
>    - Use bayesian matching
>    - Auto-clear threshold
>    - Commercial atm fees threshold
>      (shouldn't atm be capitalized since it's an acronym?)
> 
> The keyboard key Alt-D is used for two options
>    - Match display threshold
>    - Verbose debug messages
> 

All fixed (including ATM).

> >>h) Reports
> But the keyboard shortcut keys for 'Locale' and 'Choose' are missing.

Fixed.

> The keyboard shortcut Alt-C is used for two options
>    - Close
>    - Create in advance, days:

Fixed.  Alt-C is always close.

> >>j) Summary Bar
> There are no keyboard shortcut keys defined for any of the options.

Fixed.

> I already reported this somewhere else:
> When the calendar is selected with the keyboard (press Enter) the focus 
> doesn't switch to the calendar and it's not possible to select a date 
> with the keyboard.

I don't see this problem.  The arrow keys don't change the date, but the
normal date selection keys (+/-, shift-+/shift--, ]/[, M/H, Y/R) all
seem to work.

> Something new I've noticed (this is also related to the calendar):
> If I open the calendar by clicking on the down-arrow, the calendar is 
> displayed.  Clicking again closes the calendar window.  At this point 
> the down-arrow button low-lights (the focus is still on the button).
> If I now click with the mouse again to open the calendar _without having 
> moved the mouse off the button_(!) nothing happens.  You can click the 
> button as much as you'd like without any action.
> You must move the mouse off the button and back on again in order for 
> the button to high-light again and the mouse click to have the desired 
> effect.

Where is this?  I tried this on the "start date" field in the
transaction editor and it worked every time.  I'm pretty sure I've seen
this elsewhere, but I can't remember where.

> > The HIG says there should be no more than four buttons in a toolbar that
> > are marked as "frequently used".  If you believe other buttons should
> > have labels in this mode we can certainly add/change which buttons are
> > labeled.
> 
> I can tell you the buttons that I use most frequently:
> Save, Close, Split, Jump, but I'm not sure if I'm representative.

I think 'Close' and 'Split' are probably pretty common.

The HIG says 'Close' shouldn't be on the toolbar because it "is rarely
used and the space is better used for more useful controls."  I don't
think this applies to Gnucash because of the way the application is
designed.

> >>    Option "Save Window Size and Position": Ignored
> > 
> > 
> > This should currently work for all dialog windows.  I'm still working on
> > the code for the main content windows.
> 
> I can confirm this for the Preferences, Find, and Tax Options window but 
> when I open the 'Edit Account' window this is not true.
> I opened the window and increased the window size.
> I closed the window.
> I opened the window; it appears as if the window starts out with the 
> larger window size but immediately falls back to the original size.
> If I save the data file, close GC, open GC again, open the 'Edit 
> Account' window, the larger window _does_ display.
> However, closing the window again and reopening it reverts the window 
> size back to the original size.

I don't see this problem at all.  The window always opens at the saved
size for me.  What distro are you running?

> Don't hate me for being picky. :-)

I don't.  I'm glad someone's taking the time do do this.  I've looked at
that dialog so many times it all blurs together and looks the same to
me.

David




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