Feature suggestion: display account numbers in register and account selection popup

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Fri Aug 26 03:22:12 EDT 2011


On donderdag 25 augustus 2011, Florian Haas wrote:
> On 08/25/2011 09:56 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > Hi Florian,
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2011 schrieb Florian Haas:
> >> Thus, my suggestion is to add an option to display account numbers in
> >> the register and account selection dialog. Then, if said option is
> >> checked, the account selection dropdown would display account numbers
> >> and enable users to quickly select an account by typing 3-4 numeric
> >> keys.
> > 
> > well, thanks for the well-explained feature suggestion and your patches,
> > but your patches only touch the very first 5% of the work that needs to
> > be completed before such a feature is available. Hence, it is rather
> > pointless to apply those patches right now, as the major part of this
> > work is still ahead.
> 
> Yes, completely agree. I had no expectation that this would be merged
> straight away.
> 
> > Thanks anyway for the start. As this is probably something that won't be
> > worked on immediately, I suggest it should be filed as a bugzilla
> > enhancement request, and your patches can go there as well. (I thought
> > there were already a similar enhancement request in bugzilla, but I
> > couldn't find it.)
> 
> Ack on the Bugzilla entry. Regarding attaching patches, however, may I
> instead suggest that I maintain a topic branch in my GitHub repo? I can
> occasionally rebase that branch on trunk, and it will make merging very
> easy once the work is completed. Does that sound reasonable?
> 
For me that's fine. I propose you add a link to that branch in the bug report 
so someone interested in working on this can easily find it back.

Geert


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