Request for some Enhancements of Gnucash

[Geert Janssens]

Hi,

Just a suggestion: create bug reports (enhancement requests) for these items 
in the GnuCash bugzilla. This allows developers to track your requests. I 
doesn't look like there is a developer right now with enough time and/or 
interest in implementing your requests (unless you intend to do it yourself ?)

In a mailing list, this kind of requests tends to get lost after a while.

Regards,

Geert

On Sunday 28 December 2008, Raphaël Maville wrote:
> 1. HAVE SEVERAL NEUTRAL TOP LEVEL ACCOUNTS
> In a GnuCash Window, we can only create top level accounts of a given
> type: one of the 5 basis types, given into 12 sub-types (Bank, Cash,
> Asset...): it is impossible to create a neutral top level.
> But a "neutral" top level account already exists: the gnucash file.
>
> What I would like to have, it is to have several neutral top level
> accounts.
> Advantages:
> - a better structure for them; by example: one tree for your personal
> accounts, one tree for your professional accounts, one for your wife or
> husband, one for your children;
> - they can have the option to be balanced between them or to do not!
>
> By now, of course, this can be done using different files opened in
> different gnucash applications, together or one after one: it is harder
> to use!
>
> 2. OPEN SEVERAL ACCOUNTING FILES TOGETHER
> This comes after and with the question 1.
> - option to handle several neutral top level accounts together in the
> same file, or separated in different files!
>
> 3. GIVE AN EXTENSION IN THE FILE NAME OF GNUCASH
> Under linux ubuntu and gnome, a click on the gnucash file open it in the
> firefox internet explorer, as an XML document! And it is an XML
> document!
> (And File Roller 2.2.23 do not handle compressed gnucash file: Ok it is
> not the problem of the gnucash team, but...)
> - it should be better that a click on a gnucash file, compressed or not
> opens it in gnucash instead!
> - Which extension to give ? for uncompressed: ".cash" ? ".gch" ? for
> compressed: ".cgz" ? ".gchz" ?
>
> 4. THE FOLDER OF THE GNUCASH FILES LOOK LIKE A TRASH CAN!
> When I open the folder of the gnucash files, a lot of files appear in
> it!
> - What about store all this files in a subfolder beginning with a dot
> (point) and the name of the saved file ? Example: all the file for the
> file "mygnucashfile" will be store in ".mygnucashfile".
>
> 5. GIVE THE ABILITY TO EASY CREATE AND IMPORT REPORTS
> - Without knowledge of scheme programming: create the report in another
> format (XML ?), translated in scheme by gnucash. Is it possible ?
> I hate parenthesis!
>
> 6. ENHANCE THE BUSINESS MENU
> Over all, the Customers pages... Hard to understand and handle!
>
>
> Opinion ?
>
>
> This is probably a lot of questions, a lot of work and a lot of time...
> Roma has not been made in one day!