Nits and "issues"

[Dean Johnson]

Howdy,
I am running 1.4.9 for reference.

* I imported 6 years worth of quicken data and I think I found a problem
with the importation of assets. For each balance adjustment is an
offsetting balance adjustment right after it. This caused my 401K plan
numbers to be off by a factor of 3.

* In the registers, when you go to add a new transaction, the date
should be auto-selected so that the user can just type the new date (or
hit tab), rather than deleting. This issue may be lessened by the use of
accelerators, but I have got used to that yet.

* I can't seem to get the reconcile "starting balance" to be anything
other than $0.00. This is a big pain.

* There should be a reconcile icon on the toolbar.

* What the hell does "scrub" mean and do? I haven't found any references
to it in the documentation. I was looking at it in the context of hiding
cleared transactions in the reconciling of accounts.

* There should be a way of hiding accounts on the main screen. I have
many inactive accounts that I don't want to see most of the time.

* It isn't clear if there is a way of hiding the cleared transactions
when reconciling accounts. 6 years of checks kinda gets in the way when
reconciling.

* The reconcile column should use the paper checkbook metaphor of a
checkmark, rather than 'c' or 'n'. Its pretty much a boolean type deal
(excluding the 'not recorded yet' state) and it would stand out more and
be more intuitive for standard desktop users (read "dummies").

Well, thats my off the top of my head survey of nits with gnucash that I
have found after a coupla days use. As a professional GUI guy and avid
Quicken user, I'm pretty pedantic about things. Also, some more
background, I moved to gnucash so that I wouldn't have to use my mac for
its last standard usage, namely Quicken. The mac can now officially move
off my desk ;-).

	-Dean