[SLUG] finance under linux

[Adam Hewitt]

Well I am running Debian Sid, all standard...however I rebooted and
tried it again and it magically started working...

weird

Thanks anyways

Adam.

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 10:18, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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
> >