GnuCash Mac OS X issues: languages, splash screen
Kevin Reid
kpreid at switchb.org
Wed Jan 19 16:41:18 EST 2011
I just installed GnuCash 2.4.0 in place of 2.2.9, and it seems to have
a new problem with language selection:
My Mac OS X language preference was set to the preference ordering
(jbo, en, de, es, ...). When I launched GnuCash it displayed its text
in German, rather than English. Further testing seems to indicate that
whenever the first language listed is an unusual one (presumably one
which GnuCash does not have a translation for), GnuCash picks the
first available language in the list *other than English*.
For now, I can set my language preference to have English first, but I
would appreciate this being fixed.
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I installed 2.4.0 mainly to make sure I wasn't reporting old bugs in
the following unrelated report.
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The splash screen has two problems on Mac OS X:
Firstly, it should not exist. Most Mac OS X applications do not
display splash screens. The icon bouncing in the dock serves as an
"application loading" indicator, which does not distract from doing
other tasks until the application is ready.
Secondly, the splash screen displays on top of all other windows even
if GnuCash is not itself the frontmost application. This severely
interferes with doing other tasks while GnuCash loads, and I see no
reason it should not be changed even if the splash screen continues to
exist.
I am aware that there is a “Show splash screen” preference. Therefore,
I am requesting that:
1. The application icon should remain bouncing until GnuCash has
finished loading.
2. The splash screen should be in the normal window layer rather than
being in front.
3. The splash screen preference should default to off on Mac OS X.
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I will be happy to file bug reports for these issues; but I wanted to
first check if they are already known somewhere or there are obvious-
to-you considerations I haven't noticed.
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Kevin Reid <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>
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