Features for gnucash-1.6?

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Sat, 31 Mar 2001 13:54:50 -0800


Stephen P Williams writes:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:38:45AM -0600, Bill Gribble wrote:
> > I don't know what proportion of the people on gnucash-user use the
> > 1.5.x development series as opposed to the stable series, or how
> > closely people follow the development process, but we are approaching
> > a feature freeze in advance of a 1.6 release.  
> > 
> > It's not here yet, though :) so I thought I'd ask what features people
> > are most hoping will make it into 1.6.  Hopefully they're already in
> > 1.5 but if not there's still some time left.
> 
> I have one request:
> 
> Would it be possible to special case the behavior of `commit' on the `new'
> transaction line so that you don't have to keep clicking the `Move to the bla
> nk
> transaction at the bottom of the register' button in the toolbar?  Could a
> keyboard accelerator be added (suggest Ctrl-N)?
> 
> I often find myself entering checking account transactions after I have
> entered future transactions (e.g. paychecks, scheduled bill payments, etc.) f
> or a
> later date.  I usually edit in `auto-double' mode, and as soon as I complete
> typing in a new transaction:
> 
>   1. the new transaction gets sorted into date order (this is okay)
>   2. the `cursor' moves to the next transaction in date order after
>      the sort (this is annoying).
> 
> I've been really impressed with how far GnuCash has come in the last year, an
> I'm looking forward to 1.6 (but maybe not until 1.6.1 ;-).

The 1.6 version will have a user preference setting that makes
'enter' jump to the new blank transaction after recording the
current one.

dave