QIF importer: allow new commodity namespaces?

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Charles,
>
>
> Quoting Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>:
>
>  When a user imports a QIF file containing a new security, a dialog is
> > presented that asks which GnuCash namespace and symbol to use (for
> > example,
> > Red Hat would be "NYSE" and "RHT").
> >
> > Currently the user is not allowed to enter a new namespace using this
> > dialog. Is this intentional, or a bug?  Adding new namespaces was
> > apparently
> > allowed prior to 2.1.x, according to bug 336192.
> >
>
> I have no objection to making it a combo box instead of a dropdown list.
>

It's funny... it actually already is a combo box (a GtkComboBoxEntry
widget), but if you enter a new value, there is a callback function in place
that throws it away and goes back to one of the values already on the list.


>  Cheers,
> > Charles
> >
>
> -derek
>
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