Wow, gnucash has come a long way

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Toan T Nguyen <nguyenthetoan at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I tried gnucash 2.2.1 and was impressed how far it has come (my last
> try was with 1.6 version). So far what I saw:

Wow, that's a LONG time!  1.6 is so last-century!  :)

> - Quicken conversion is much much better. Of course, I still need a
> lot of manual work, but at least I was able to make a complete
> conversion (I couldn't do that with 1.6, there were so many
> transactions missing, and the balances were out of wack). This
> includes all the retirement, banking, credit cards, brokerage, loans,
> flexible spending accounts. Very impressive.

Thanks!   I admit that there hasn't been MANY changes to that since,
oh, 2.0.  A few bugfixes, but honestly most of the changes were in 1.8.

> - Online transaction download from within the register !

Yep.  Cool, eh?

> - Cleaner interface.

This came with 2.0 and the Gtk2 migration.

> - Some weird bugs with negative/positive amounts in expense accounts
> (I make a report on net worth, and the asset column is zero :).

Not sure what you mean about this.  Could you go into more detail?

> Wish list
> - Interactive report. In Quicken, you can click on a report to get
> more information about a particular category.

With the graphical reports?  Or with text reports?  We USED to have
this in 1.6 and earlier, but when we migrated to gtk2 we had to change
the graphics library, and the graphics library we're using now
(GnomeOffice Graphics) doesn't have that functionality, so... We
lost it.  :(

> Anyway, keep up the excellent work! I'm donating $50 for the cause :)

Thanks!

> Toan

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-derek

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