a Quicken user tests out GnuCash...

[James Ralston]

I've been using Quicken for about 7 years now.  I've been a unix geek
for about 12 years, and a Linux geek for the past 5 years.  Although I
suspect it'll be a while until I can get rid of Windows entirely (too
many games are Windows-only), I'd like to wean myself off of Quicken,
if possible.

I exported all of my Quicken transactions into a giant QIF file, and
loaded them into GnuCash.  I've been playing around with it for about
4 hours so far.  Here are my comments/questions so far.

The biggest problem so far is that GnuCash can't seem to cope with
importing QIF split transactions.  All QIF transactions which
contained splits are counted as the exact opposite of what they should
be (i.e., receive instead of spend; spend instead of receive).  This
is a showstopper for me, as the vast majority of my transactions are
splits.

Is this a known bug?  (I'm using Quicken 2000 on Windows 98 SE.)

I've also been having difficulty dealing with split transactions in
general under GnuCash.

GnuCash seems to want to reorder the split transactions.  How can I
configure GnuCash to use the exact order I give it?

What is GnuCash's equivalent of Quicken's "adjust split total" button?

In Quicken, when entering a transaction with splits, I find it very
handy to enter the total transaction amount first, before I start
entering splits; that way, if all of the splits total to the amount I
entered, I know I've gotten the splits correct.  In GnuCash, however,
I haven't found a way to edit the transaction total directly; I can
only change it via entering splits.  How do I change it directly?

Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice...

James