"Welcome Sample Report" broken

[Dan Smith]

On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> Op vrijdag 20 januari 2012 19:54:04 schreef John Ralls:
>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>>> Under Mac OS X Lion (10.7.2) and GnuCash 2.4.9, the "Welcome Sample
>>> Report" won't display properly, nor will other multicolumn custom
>>> reports that include multiple graphs.
>>> 
>>> Items on the "Welcome Sample Report":
>>> 
>>> Welcome to GnuCash: OK
>>> Account Summary: OK
>>> Expense Piechart: OK
>>> Income Piechart: "Unable to display pie chart"
>>> Income & Expense Chart: "Unable to push bar chart"
>>> 
>>> If I click the "single report" link under either broken graph, it takes
>>> me to the graph (without error) on a new page.  But the multicolumn
>>> view consistently fails to display more than one graph.
>>> 
>>> Testing older versions:
>>> 2.4.8: reports broken
>>> 2.4.5: application won't run
>>> 2.4.0: application won't run
>>> 2.2.9: OK
>>> 
>>> Is this a known issue?  I don't think my system is especially unusual. 
>>> I do have some MacPorts GnuCash builds sitting on my hard drive.
>> Not a known issue; I'll test it out sometime in the next week. Thanks for
>> the report.
>> 
> It is a known issue [1], although this is the first time someone reports it on 
> OS X. It is easy to reproduce and seems to have been introduced with the 
> switch to webkit.
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638971

Thanks for the info.  I'll watch that bug.

For what it's worth (to any developers reading this), this is a pretty important feature to me.  Next to basic transaction logging and searching, the principal GnuCash feature I make use of is multicolumn graphical reports.  The workaround (clicking on each "single report" link as I want to look at it) is tolerable in the short term, but I look forward to it getting fixed...

—Dan