[SLUG] finance under linux

[Derek Atkins]

What distro are you running?  Looks like you built your own gnome
or something without nls support?

-derek

Adam Hewitt <ahewitt at globaldial.com> writes:

> well I just installed Gnucash and cranked her up and it bombed out with
> this error...
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> The font "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not
> support all the required character sets for the current locale "C"
> (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
> Warniong: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot load font:
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> [similar 5 more times]
> 
> ??
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Adam.
> 
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 02:34, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at medemail.com.au> writes:
> > 
> > > I was experimenting with gnucash to see if i could do office billing with it 
> > > for a medical practice. my education is in very practical things, not 
> > > accounting, and as usual when experimenting with software i didn't read any 
> > > documentation (what's new?). it took me many tries to add a customer and many 
> > > more to make an invoice. that's why i think it isn't intuitive.
> > 
> > Hmm..  Could you provide more information about this?  I'm a bit
> > too close to the UI, so I know how everything is supposed to work.
> > However I tried to make the flow work "naturally".  Could you perhaps
> > explain what was going through your head?  What did you try?  What
> > did you expect to happen?  How did what actually happened confuse you?
> > 
> > I'm trying to understand what you did (and why) so I can improve the
> > UI to help users along when they do something I didn't expect ;)
> > 
> > Perhaps what we really need is a druid to "configure a company".
> > 
> > > after the event i realised that i was missing many things - that it was 
> > > pointless trying to add customers without the concept of accounts receivable 
> > > in use.
> > 
> > Well, you can create a customer before you create an AR account, but
> > yea, you need an AR account before you can post any invoices.
> > 
> > > checking now, the customer is requested as a company, but i wanted to be able 
> > > to bill individuals, and they would fall into groups (families) and they need 
> > > to be able to change groups (eg leave home and be billed under their own 
> > > name)
> > 
> > Yes, this is true..  Customers (and Vendors) are considered
> > "companies", and the UI is designed with that in mind.  There is now a
> > tooltip that will inform you that you should set the company name and
> > contact name the same to get the invoice system to treat it as an
> > individual.
> > 
> > Also, gnucahs does not have the concept of "families"... There is no
> > way to group a bunch of customers together into a single bill.  One
> > way you COULD do it is to use the patient's name as the "company name"
> > and the family name as the "contact name".  It's a kludge, but it's
> > probably the closest you'll get..
> > 
> > The business features were written for me to use with my consulting
> > company... I tried to generalize it, but you know how it goes. :)
> > 
> > > I am a small part of a group building medical software (gnumed) and we will 
> > > eventually be needing gnucash for the other part of our daily work. 
> > 
> > Ok...  Not sure what this means, but ok.. :)
> > 
> > > Liz
> > 
> > -derek
> 

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