Deposit Slip
Paul Lussier
pll@mclinux.com
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:19:50 -0400
In a message dated: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:59:17 CDT
David Raleigh Arnold said:
>Thanks a lot for all the kind replies.
You're quite welcome :)
>You have made me much more optimistic--really, because you pay attention
>to nonuser feedback as well as user feedback. Trust me when I say that
>you don't get very much of it, and you are unfortunate in
>that regard. --oldcurmudgeon :-)
It's not your feedback anyone objects to, it's the tone of voice with
which it was delivered. How do you expect people to react when you
come out of nowhere telling them that everything they've done is crap
just because it doesn't fit your specific needs and desires?
You may not have intended that tone, but that's how it was received
and responded to. There's a huge difference between things like:
David> I saw your screen shots. You have no deposit slip. You
David> should have a deposit slip
David> Your program is useless for many people without it.
[...]
David> The reason you don't have it is because you slavishly imitate
David> the commercial checkbook programs, which don't have it because
David> the publishers think they don't have to have it. Thus you
David> imitate them in dishing out what *they* say users should
David> want.
[...]
David> I don't care a rat's ass how much it looks like a checkbook register.
and something like:
Hey, I was looking at your screenshots and noticed that you
don't seem to have a deposit slip. This happens to be a
feature of Quicken I really use a lot. As a matter of fact,
it's about the only feature of Quicken I care about.
What would the possibilities be of getting something like
this into a future release? Without I feel I'm pretty
much trapped in Quicken. I'd be willing to contribute
some code ideas which may or may not be consistent with
the way GnuCash is designed, but hopefully it's a starting
point which will further explain what I'm talking about.
There's a lot to the old adage "You catch more flies with honey than
with vinegar!" You came out swinging and reeking of vinegar and we
reacted in kind.
So, I apologize if you've been offended by our tone. We really
shouldn't have stooped down to that level. However, perhaps in the
future, you may wish to choose your words a little more carefully.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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