Comments Regarding New 2.5.1 Register

[John Ralls]

On May 28, 2013, at 2:53 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was trying out 2.5.1 on my Mac (Mountain Lion) and was prepared to report that it was crashing when I tried closing and then re-opening my main checking account register. Every time I did, I got a beach ball/hourglass, and had to force quit the application. 
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> I thought the problem had to do with the fact that my Accounts were set to use tab color designators (which are not displaying, BTW). But loading a couple of other colored-tab accounts worked. That was when I remembered the thread regarding SLOW loading. Sure enough, when I tried again to open my account, and this time waited over two minutes (!!), my account opened in the new register. So consider this another voice raised for needing this to work faster. I truly thought I had crashed the software!
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> Having loaded the new register, I see what folks have been saying about the screen flag for future transactions. Personally I think it does not work. Users looking at the register see it naturally as a flow of time from the top of the screen to the bottom, and having the blue horizontal line is highly effective at indicating a transition from past to future. Having a vertical bar might work, but is nowhere near as obvious. Furthermore, embedding this bar two thirds of the way off to the right makes no sense to me at all. At the very least, it should default to the left-most position. I was able to move it to the left--by moving all the other fields to the right, which was quite cumbersome. I think the old way would be clearer. Or perhaps the entire transaction could have a different background color if its in the future?
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> I'll note that the correct heading is "Withdrawal", not "Withdrawl."
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> Finally, the click-sortable columns is really neat, but I would like to see it possible to have a "Click to restore the default sort order" button. I did not see any way to return to this sort order once I had clicked on a heading. This is especially frustrating since the tendency to re-sort a column is great when one is simply trying to resize the columns.
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Thanks for the report. I hope you mean 2.5.2, released today, rather than 2.5.1
from 3 weeks ago.

Regards,
John Ralls