Check Numbers and Expese Report

[Gearry Judkins]

I have been using gnucash for a few months now and there are a few 
things I have noticed which I thought I would metion to the list to see 
if they are items being addressed.

First off I am using Gnucash 1.6.6 that I got from the debian testing 
branch a while back.

1)Check numbers:  I belive I saw it the tips section that you could 
automatically get it to insert the next incremented check number by 
pressing the + key. I have tried this and I seem to get some weird 
behavior.  If I use that in a given session before I have typed any 
numbers that session it falls back to an old check number, say 140 when 
I should be on 157 and the checks 140 through 156 are already in the 
register.  If I type in a check number, say 157, pressing + when in that 
field will then work correctly for the rest of that session.  Has anybod 
else seen this?

2)Expense Barchart: I like the expense barchart, but I have one problem 
with it.  I like the way that the expense piechart takes the catagories 
which comprise the largest percentages first and itemizes them until it 
gets to n-1 of the total catagories I have asked to be displayed, 
putting the remaining into the "other" group.  The barchart howerver 
just takes the first n-1 catagories in alphabetical order, and assings 
the rest to "other", which makes the divisions in the bars in that 
barchart less meaningful.  If I knew anythign about scheme I would look 
into it, but I don't and right now I don't really have the time to 
learn, but it seems like it should be something easy to change since the 
code for dividing things up is basically in the piechart report already. 
  Feel free to tell me all the reasons why I am wrong on this.

All in all I have to say that gnucash is probably one of the most 
user-friendly opensource apps I have encountered to date.  Many thanks 
to all involved.  I hope that as time goes on I can contribute something 
to the project.

Gearry


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