[Patch] to add option to disable 'skip to value field' on memorised transaction

[David T.]

The developers have explained why they want the default to be false, so I would recommend using "Tab moves to Transfer field" which can default to False. Since Gnucash currently goes directly to the Amount field, you should consider this to be the "expected" behavior, even if it's not YOUR expectation.

David

--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Patch] to add option to disable 'skip to value field' on  memorised transaction
> To: "Christian Stimming" <stimming at tuhh.de>, "gnucash-devel" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 12:45 PM
> 2009/10/4 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
> > 2009/10/4 Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>:
> >> Am Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2009 11:23 schrieb Colin
> Law:
> >>> Patch that provides a new option in the
> Register preferences to
> >>> specify whether, when tab is hit after
> entering the description for a
> >>> memorised transaction in Basic Ledger view,
> that the cursor  skips to
> >>> the value field (as at present) or just tabs
> to the Transfer field.
> >>> The option defaults to skip so gnucash
> operation is unaffected unless
> >>> user modifies the option.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for this patch! This looks very fine.
> There is one single issue
> >> that can be improved even more (even though nobody
> has told you so far -
> >> sorry for that): If for whatever reason your
> changed gconf schema file isn't
> >> being installed in the correct location, and your
> new key isn't found, gconf
> >> will return the global default value for bool
> keys, which is FALSE. Hence, to
> >> make life still a little easier, we try to add new
> gconf keys in a way so
> >> that their default value also is FALSE. By
> coincidence, your default value is
> >> TRUE. I would ask whether it is sensible and
> possible to switch the option so
> >> that it's default value is FALSE? It's not
> extremely important, but still
> >> helpful.
> >
> > I can see the logic in going for a default of false
> wherever possible,
> > I had that problem with the schema file myself.  I
> did think of
> > reversing the logic but had difficulty coming up with
> a sensible
> > choice of words in the preferences dialog.  I have
> the text 'Tab skips
> > to value on memorised transaction' which requires a
> default of true.
> > Can anyone think of appropriate text for a default of
> false?  Tab
> > moves to Transfer field... does not really work for me
> as that is the
> > normal action one would expect from tab anyway and I
> am too close to
> > the problem to see an alternative.
> 
> If no-one has an alternative for the text would it be best
> just to
> leave it as in the patch I have submitted?  It is not
> as if anyone
> getting the wrong default is going to be much upset, in
> fact they
> would likely not even notice.
> 
> Colin
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