[SLUG] finance under linux

[Adam Hewitt]

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