Tax Information Dialog comment

[Thomas Peterson]

I have submitted Bug 518833 to track the enhancement request.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Thomas Peterson <
thomas.tap.peterson at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Tax Information window that is accessed via Edit->Tax Options is not
> Account specific so it seems logical that I would be able to set any number
> of accounts when it is opened. Otherwise, it needs to be opened and closed
> for every type of tax category that will be applied which has been about 20
> times in my case so far and I'm not done setting up all of my accounts. It's
> painfully slow having to reopen it and then find and select the next account
> to be set.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > "Thomas Peterson" <thomas.tap.peterson at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > So back to my original comment.  Is this the appropriate place to send
> > these
> > > types of comments or should they be placed elsewhere.  Some of my
> > issues
> > > probably have to do with the ignorant user running things so I would
> > like to
> > > find that out before requesting a change request.
> >
> > Depends.  It's probably a good place to start.
> >
> > > The Tax Information Dialog (from Edit->Tax Options) needs an apply
> > button so
> > > multiple updates can be done without the window having to be closed on
> > every
> > > change. It took me a while of setting the tax information on multiple
> > > accounts to find out that it was only maintaining the latest change
> > and that
> > > Gnucash required the OK button to be selected after every account
> > update.
> >
> > I'm not sure why you didn't think you needed to hit "ok" to get your
> > changes accepted/applied.
> >
> > Well, we could add an apply button, but it's unclear if you could
> > keep the same Tax Information Dialog for multiple usages.  Without
> > having looked at the code in question, it's quite possible that there's
> > context information associated with the dialog (internally perhaps)
> > that would require a unique instance of the dialog for each use.
> >
> > I've never used that particular dialog myself.   But you could
> > file an RFE in Bugzilla for this.
> >
> > > Thanks, Tom
> >
> > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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> >
> > -derek
> >
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