1.9.6

Fri May 26 22:48:07 EDT 2006

I installed 1.9.6 from unstable.

First impressions.

- The xml conversion druid: it's drammatically frightening the newbye.
Some more explication is due.

 It showed me a cyrillic encoding, and I can't understand why: I have a
localization es_DO, I suppose it should have shown UTF, ISO8859-1,
iso8859-15.

  Besides that, everyone knows that 1.8 didn't use UTF-8, so why present
this possibility?

  Every time a different localization is chosen, the druid apparently
must re-read all the file, with very large times for me (my data file is
43 M).

  If UTF-8 is selected, in the drop down lists nothing is shown: UTF-8
doesn't permit to read those strings?

  When I put the cursor over a drop down lists, the letters get the
colors of the tool, and so I can't read the string (the same thing is
present in all gnucash2)

 The conversion of my 43M file took 2 minutes.

- When the conversion druid ends, the main gnucash window is presented,
reading again the file (2 more minutes). The indicator in the bottom
right corner moves very very very rapidly! Fortunately after a short
time it gets tired and reduces the speed!

- In the main window, sorting by the total doesn't seem right (see the
corresponding screenshot)

- In the main window, it would be comfortable to be able to remove a
column drag&dropping it away with the mouse, at least with a right
button click. The right button click should present the possible columns
list and permit to add a column.

 At least we have the possibility to sort accounts with the mouse:
congratulations!

- The account currency selector is better: congratulations!

- Saving the file is slower than in 1.8.9?

Till now, the console gave these errors:

$ gnucash
gnucash: [M] "Found Finance::Quote version "1.11
/usr/share/yelp/info.xml:0: error : unterminated entity reference
Embedding Python 2.2
/usr/share/yelp/info.xml:0: error : unterminated entity reference
Embedding Python 2.3
/usr/share/yelp/info.xml:0: error : unterminated entity reference
Embedding Python 2.1

(gnucash:1027): gnome-vfs-modules-WARNING **: Could not initialize
inotify

(gnucash:1027): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
`GnomeDruidPageStandard' to `GtkWindow'

[last message many times]

- opening the data file is slower than in 1.8.9?

- In the preferences (I'm using spanish localization), when passing from
the 1st to the 2nd tab, something weird appears (see screenshot).

  When the preferences are opened, shouldn't the program be unusable?

  Separation character: ghanging it reloading of the data file (2
minutes for me...). Besides that, I found "colon": shouldn't it be ":"?
Note that in 1.8.9 I used the dot ".": the preferences wasn't preserved.

  File -> compress wasn't preserved neither. Neither the "days to retain
log files"

Error presented in console:

$ gnucash
gnucash: [M] "Found Finance::Quote version "1.11

(gnucash:1798): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in
cast to `GObject'

(gnucash:1798): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_qdata: assertion
`G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnucash:1798): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_text: assertion
`GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gnucash:1798): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in
cast to `GObject'

(gnucash:1798): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_qdata: assertion
`G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnucash:1798): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_text: assertion
`GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(gnucash:1798): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in
cast to `GObject'

(gnucash:1798): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_qdata: assertion
`G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnucash:1798): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_text: assertion
`GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

- When gnucash loades the data file, the window is too little, it
appears ugly

- Preferences: Toolbar style, text besides icons: not all icons show
text

- Preferences window: in my 1024x768 screen it's too big, the close
button in invisible

- Building a report is
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long (>15
min) with my data file (a problem from 1.8.9). At least gnucash should
be usable in the registry while the report is calculated

 - Congratulation for the asterisk indicating the data file hasn't been
saved!

- Account summary report options: with nested accounts, there is enough
space in order to see the entire accounts names. Besides that, a black
space is left at the right of the accounts name, it seems unuseful and
it would be great in order to show better the accounts names (see
screenshot)

- Doing "remove txn splits" when I am in a splitted txn deletes all the
splits but the one corresponding the the account am I working in:  That
doesn't seem logic to me. I entend "remove txn split" (singular) and
expect it remove the split I'm in with the cursor. Actually I do this
with "delete txn". The thing isn't clear, although there is something
logic. What is this menu command for?

- I entered a txn with two currencies, it didn't ask me for the echange
rate and put 1.00 as exchange rate

- gnucash crashed with the following:
   - in a register I begun a new txn and put an account in a foreign
currency (not with the dialog window, directly in the register).
   - without saving the txn, I hit 2 times the escape key. The second
time the crash occurred
   - I found the "transfer funds" window opened (I didn't open it)

 in the console I found the following:

(gnucash:2065): gnome-vfs-modules-WARNING **: Could not initialize
inotify

;;; WARNING (gnc:resolve-unknown-comm: Oops - exchange rate ambiguity
error:  BRL 45.00  =  DOP 732.15)

;;; WARNING (gnc:resolve-unknown-comm: Oops - exchange rate ambiguity
error:  EUR 14,905.00  =  DOP 581,673.00)

;;; WARNING (gnc:resolve-unknown-comm: Oops - exchange rate ambiguity
error:  DOP 912,305.00  =  EUR 22,009.00)

;;; WARNING (gnc:resolve-unknown-comm: Oops - exchange rate ambiguity
error:  EUR 46,964.37  =  ITL 90,980,156)

;;; WARNING (gnc:resolve-unknown-comm: Oops - exchange rate ambiguity
error:  DOP 1,979,290,538.79  =  ITL 2,177,740,867)
/usr/share/yelp/info.xml:0: error : unterminated entity reference
Embedding Python 2.2
/usr/share/yelp/info.xml:0: error : unterminated entity reference
Embedding Python 2.3
/usr/share/yelp/info.xml:0: error : unterminated entity reference
Embedding Python 2.1
end from FAM server connection
"/usr/bin/gnucash": not in executable format: File format not recognized

I don't know what does the BRL currency refers to, I think I don't have
a txn with such a currency in my data file

- In the main window I miss a command to expand or shrink all the
account hierarchy

- In the search window I miss a search by the commodity 

- At least the ctrl-f shortcut works in the register too:
congratulations!

- a feature that was added in 1.x: the window title showing not only the
account name, but the parents account names too. I can't see it in 1.9.6

- In the main window the Total (period) and the Balance (period) columns
don't show anything

-- 
Buon Cammino!

don Paolo Benvenuto

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