date completion

[Peter Selinger]

Great, thanks! This might still be a good candidate for "tip of the
day". -- Peter

Geert Janssens wrote:
> 
> [ this is a resend, as I accidentally sent it first to gnucash-patches ]
> 
> On Wednesday 12 January 2011, Peter Selinger wrote:
> > [removing gnucash-user from the cc list]
> > 
> > Hi Geert,
> > 
> > yes, I see your point. Of the patch that I submitted, about 10 lines
> > are for calculating the actual dates, and all the rest for the user
> > preference.
> > 
> > I thought a preference might be in order mostly because of backward
> > compatibility. Personally, when I upgrade to a new version of some
> > software, I don't like the default behavior to change. It would not be
> > too confusing in January, but say if someone enters a transaction for
> > December in May, or for May in December, the sliding window thing
> > might be unexpected and surprising. Especially considering that when
> > you enter a transaction in the transaction editor and the date is not
> > what you expected, the just-entered transaction jumps outside the view
> > and the window doesn't scroll to it. I have often wasted a bit of time
> > trying to find the transaction I just entered.
> > 
> > Also, it's not uncommon for me at tax time (April) to enter a lot of
> > transactions for the whole year, all of which will be in the past,
> > hence the configurability of the sliding window. For this reason, I
> > considered making this even more configurable: for example, allowing a
> > 12-month period that does not include the present date (e.g., previous
> > calendar year, previous fiscal year).
> > 
> > These are just a few thoughts. I would be totally okay with hardcoding
> > the window to 6 months, as that is the setting I would choose for
> > myself. I just didn't want to force my preference on everybody!
> > 
> > -- Peter
> > 
> I find your arguments very sound, so I consider this a good use of options. 
> Hence I have committed your patch, with just some minore changes to deal with 
> the situation that the options don't exist yet in gconf.
> 
> Thanks for this patch !
> 
> Geert
>