My Gnucash has changed - making changes

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 14 January 2014 13:58:27 David Ryder wrote:
>    Ubuntu 12.04
>    I opened Gnucash yesterday - things had changed. I installed 2.4.11
> some time ago (over a year?) but now it is saying it is 2.6 However
> all my columns sizes had changed - but the most annoying thing is the
> pop up box every time I change the reconciled from 'n' to 'c' asking
> me if I want to make the change. The options are 'Remember the answer
> and don't ask me again' and 'Remember the answer for this session'.
> Seems silly to me for the reconciliation column when changing 'n' to
> 'c' but sensible if changing 'y' to 'n'...
>    I _do_ want to be asked if I change a 'y' to a 'n' in the
> reconciled column - so I can't choose 'don't ask me again'.
Did you read the question you are actually asked ? I would suspect it is asking if you want to 
change an existing transaction and not if you want to change a reconciled transaction (which 
would mean changing 'y' to 'n'). Read the question carefully and probably you can choose 'don't 
ask me again'.

>    But I _don't_ want asking if I, say, change 'n' to 'c' or add a
>    reference in the Description or Num columns.
>    It was all working fine last week.
>    Can anybody tell me if this popup is per column or universal to any
> changes?
This popup is per warning. There are about 15 actions that are considered "invasive" enough to 
explicitly ask the user if he/she really wants to do this. You probably triggered the "change 
existing transaction warning". This warning is there because gnucash doesn't have an easy way 
to undo an accidental change.

Note that this warning has always been in gnucash. So you probably disabled it long ago as well. 
There are no newly introduced warnings in gnucash 2.6.

>     As I had obviously got this working the way I wanted it some time
> ago I'm hesitant because Gnucash has apparently updated itself (I
> didn't know it did).
Since you got an automatic update, you probably didn't read the release notes for the new 
version. These notes explain that gnucash has switched over to a new preferences system, but 
that not all preferences can be migrated from the old version. Some of the warning preferences 
are part of that, as well as the column sizes you mentioned in the beginning.

Regarding the column sizes 2.6 has a new bug [1] which makes it frequently forget the column 
sizes for the account hierarchy.

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721306