Business 'fancy date format'

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 10 November 2016 10:08:52 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2016 20:57:58 Geert Janssens wrote:
> > Bob, John,
> > 
> > I don't know who chose to add a UTC option in the fancy date list or
> > what it is supposed to mean. It was there when I took up fixing the
> > reports already.
> > 
> > However regarding the failure if no default is set, this is a bug in
> > the option definition rather than in the reports.
> > 
> > This option is defined in
> > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/app-utils/busines
> > s-> prefs.scm#L122
> > 
> > One can set a default value for an option, which is currently #f for
> > the dateformat option. I believe this default should be whatever we
> > choose as default in the combobox in the gui instead. And I
> > certainly
> > think "Locale" would make more sense as default than "UTC".
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Geert
> 
> I gave this some more thought this morning and would propose yet
> another possible solution that I would like even better.
> 
> I think the default should be to not use a fancy date at all, but
> rather use whatever the user selected in the general preferences.
> 
> That would need two changes:
> * Add the choice of "No fancy date" in the combo box in the Business
> preferences GUI and make that the default choice
> 
> * The date format option should query the default for the normal date
> option if "No fancy date" is selected or if there is no stored value.
> 
> Just the rough idea.
> 
> Geert

Oh, and Bob, this shouldn't block your chart resizing work. If you don't feel like 
implementing this that's just fine also :)

Geert