Another one unhappy with quickfill

[David T.]

Dennis--

--- On Sun, 1/16/11, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Another one unhappy with quickfill
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, abrahams at acm.org, "Geert Janssens" <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> Date: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 8:38 PM
> I have to agree with David on the
> quickfill.  I seem to always have
> the all capital letters from downloaded transactions. 
> A nice solution
> would be to have access to the list of the transactions and
> be able to
> edit those.  This is the behavior of quicken, and that
> seemed to work
> quite nicely.
> 
> However, I will say that this is a minor item and not in
> anyway
> complaining.  I would look at it as suggestions for
> improvements.  I
> am very happy with this product and all the hard work that
> goes into
> the development.
> 

My initial response was a little harsh; I certainly agree that this is a minor inconvenience.

David
> Dennis
> 
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:58 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Geert--
> >
> > Issues with Quickfill have come up numerous times over
> the years, in much the same way (see for example http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2009-September/031370.html)
> >
> > As I said back then, I personally find Quickfill
> annoying in its implementation; if you import transactions
> from online sources and they are all DESCRIBED IN CAPITAL
> LETTERS, the user MUST TYPE IN THE ENTIRE STRING AGAIN, and
> then add a spurious character at the end to get their
> modification entered. That (as I noted in the earlier
> thread) is the opposite of quick entry. Anti-Quickfill, if
> you will.
> >
> > I would love it if Gnucash's Quickfill had ways for
> users to work with the Quickfill settings, or have Quickfill
> ignore imported transactions when populating the Quickfill
> database.
> >
> > I put up with Quirkfill (pun intended), but it sure
> would be nice if it could be improved. Of course, IANAP.
> >
> > David
> >
> > --- On Sun, 1/16/11, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> >> Subject: Re: Another one unhappy with quickfill
> >> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org,
> abrahams at acm.org
> >> Date: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 10:41 AM
> >> On Sunday 16 January 2011, Paul
> >> Abrahams wrote:
> >> > Derek asked, "What is it about quickfill that
> you
> >> don't like?"  Well,
> >> > sometimes it will create a split transaction
> because I
> >> once had one but
> >> > don't want one any longer.  And filling in
> >> a  split when it really isn't
> >> > one is a lot of unnecessary work.  Even
> making
> >> the split go away is
> >> > unnecessary labor.
> >> >
> >> > I can understand the arguments for quickfill,
> but what
> >> I don't understand
> >> > is why it isn't optional, given that many
> people
> >> dislike it.  It shouldn't
> >> > be that difficult to do.
> >> Quite frankly, you're the second person I hear
> complaining
> >> about it. I have
> >> some difficulty calling that "many".
> >>
> >> As for making the quickfill feature optional
> (assuming for
> >> now that doing so
> >> is a good idea), that is likely not too difficult,
> but
> >> still someone has to do
> >> it...
> >>
> >> Geert
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