Tax Information Dialog comment

[Derek Atkins]

Ahh, I just looked at it.  Yes, you're right, it either needs
an "Apply" button or it should remember everything you change.

-derek

"Thomas Peterson" <thomas.tap.peterson at gmail.com> writes:

> 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
>    
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>    
>     -derek
>    
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available