All transactions from QIF import listed as unspecified ... me too

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:20 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A small UI point: I find the account selector in the importer to be MUCH
> more annoying than changing an UNSPECIFIED entry in the register. This is
> due to the fact that the importer has no ability to use the keyboard to
> drill down quickly (e.g. "ex:ba:tr" can take me to "Expenses:Bank
> Fees:Transaction Fees"). I have to carefully click the little triangle next
> to each heading (careful now! don't double click!) from the top of the
> hierarchy each time to select. Ugh.
>

There is a GTK bug with searching via the keyboard. See bug 520165:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520165

But you still don't have to use the mouse. Use the standard Gnome shortcuts,
like up/down arrow to switch the selected row, + or - to expand/collapse,
and spacebar or enter to make your pick.


> IIRC, there is no indication in the import window that the categories are
> clickable. At least that's how I remember it in Mac OS X. That can be
> confusing as well.
>

Shouldn't be that way any more on 2.2.6. (Maybe even 2.2.5 but I don't
remember.) There is a button saying "Change GnuCash Account..." and an
indicator for how many rows are selected.

Take a look at the latest version, and if you see any simple visual
improvements that can be made without much effort on my part, I'll make
them.

As far as rolling QIF into the rest of the importers, there probably needs
to be a wider discussion about that. Using a druid or GtkAssistant for the
importers seems like it would be better than the existing series of popups,
and I see a number of bugs outstanding for some of the other importers, a
number of them critical. I think some bug cleanup needs to be done, and
potentially some GUI redesign, before worrying about moving QIF over. Once
Aqbanking 3 and GnuCash work together on Windows, I might try tackling some
of the OFX bugs and look at GUI cleanup there. But I would say that moving
QIF over is at the bottom of my priority list at present, and no one else is
working on QIF now - but feel free to volunteer!

Cheers,
Charles


> David
>
> --- On Tue, 8/19/08, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> > From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: All transactions from QIF import listed as unspecified ...
> me too
> > To: "Donald Allen" <donaldcallen at gmail.com>
> > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 9:42 AM
> > As for txns getting mapped to Unspecified -- you just need
> > to manually
> > go through and fix them.  Yes, it's a pain, but I think
> > it's a little
> > easier in the importer than post-import.
>
>
>
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