[GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux

[David Carlson]

Obviously this is not worth reading

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 3:38 PM Wm via gnucash-devel <
gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:

> On 05/06/2018 13:53, Chris Good wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hello, Chris
>
> > I'm working on my BackupGnuCash stand-alone app.
> > I have 2 questions today:
>
> read
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
> and weep at how bad things have become
>
> The last time i addressed this our idiots in charge were so recalcitrant
> about even considering they'd done a stupid thing I stopped reading the
> gnc lists.
>
> I am glad you, someone I respect, have raised it again.
>
> > 1.
> >
> > I'm a little uncertain about where the saved reports and metadata files
> are
> > in GnuCash 3.0 for Linux.
>
> unfortunately the people that think they know better decided to put them
> where Micrsosoft, etc thought best.  That means it changes at a whim, I
> am angry about this and they don't care.
>
> I cannot make a backup policy for my charitable organizations because
> our cleverer-than-thou FUCKWIT seniors just put stuff where they think
> MS or Linux policy suggests they should go and never actually think for
> themselves.
>
> The files should belong to the book and be closely associated with them.
>
> Our FUCKWITS IN CHARGE decided that the metadata belonged with the user
> not the book, that makes no fucking sense for an accounting file, they
> changed it anyway, grrrrr
>
> > I suspect they are by default:
> >
> > ~/.local/share/gnucash/saved-reports-2.4
> >
> > ~/.local/share/gnucash/books/[BOOK].gnucash.gcm
> >
> > unless overridden by XDG_DATA_HOME.
>
> except you can't rely on those those locations.
>
> See the problem now?
>
> > Can some-one please confirm?
>
> Only thing I can confirm is I don't know where anything is.
>
> > 2.
> >
> > I tried to get version 3 on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) running to test myself.
>
> that's the easy bit :)
>
> > Thanks in advance,
>
> Waves back.
>
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