[GNC-dev] Currencies in Price Database UI gone weird in 3.4

[Geert Janssens]

Op maandag 14 januari 2019 16:14:56 CET schreef John Ralls:
> > On Jan 14, 2019, at 12:04 AM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> >> On Jan 13, 2019, at 7:44 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel
> >> <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> I tried to get new exchange rates today for the first time since updating
> >> to 3.4.   Tools / Price Database / Currencies was largely unpopulated. 
> >> I looked in the file and the prices are there.  I reverted to 3.3 and
> >> all looks well again.
> >> 
> >> Would someone else that uses one or two currencies other than their home
> >> currency have a look if things are looking odd for them too?
> >> 
> >> Effect seems the same with both XML and sqlite backends.
> >> 
> >> Stock prices seem OK, it is just the currencies that have gone wrong.
> >> 
> >> I thought I'd ask here first as I can't see it mentioned on the bug list
> >> and it seems to obvious a thing for everyone to have missed so possibly
> >> something at my end though I can't think what.> 
> > I see the same thing.  I hadn’t noticed since I rarely open the price
> > editor dialog and prices are still there and transactions find them when
> > relevant.  If there’s not a bug report for this, you should file one.
> > 
> > I also noticed that it seems to be impossible to edit a transaction when
> > the price editor is open.  It is permanently in front of the register
> > window and seems to steal all keyboard events.
> Indeed, all of the dialogs seem to have gone partly modal. I noticed that
> for the reconciliation dialog last week; I couldn’t switch to the register
> to edit a transaction with an error, and just now I found I couldn’t switch
> away from the security editor, either.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

A change between 3.3 and 3.4 ? How odd...

Geert