GnuCash quick start

Ed Willink ed at willink.me.uk
Tue Apr 5 04:06:25 EDT 2016


Hi

Sorry, I tried, but Gnome seems to delay sending the login 
asuthorisation for an hour leaving 0 minutes to conform. Maybe it has a 
problem with summer time.

     Regards

         Ed Willink

On 04/04/2016 22:55, Liz wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:08:41 +0100
> Ed Willink <ed at willink.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm an Open Source developer, so I naturally looked for an Open
>> Source accounting tool and found GnuCash. Thank you for providing it.
>>
>> For the most part I found it did what I needed, but you failed my
>> quick start test; demonstrating to the user within 5 minutes,
>> preferably within 1 minute that the newly installed software does
>> something worth taking more time to exploit.
>>
>> I obviously didn't want to read-the-manual or follow a mega/paid
>> tutorial. What defeated me when I pursued a trial-and-error approach
>> was that Create-Transaction is so important that it is built-in and
>> so has no menu entry. Even though I got past the "New-Project" hurdle
>> quite quickly, I couldn't create any transactions. Eventually a 15
>> minute YouTube video showed me the missing trick.
>>
>> You could solve this very easily by ensuring that a Welcome-screen /
>> first-Hint-of-the-day enables a very simple example set of accounts
>> to be created so that an up and running system is ready to play with
>> almost instantly. You might even provide a short list of challenges,
>> guiding the user through the most important "Add-Transaction", Jump,
>> Duplicate, BalanceSheet etc facilities. Perhaps New->Example could
>> have more than one canned example to play with.
>>
>>       Regards
>>
>>           Ed Willink
>
> Thanks for your ideas, Ed.
> Could you put this on the bugtracker as an enhancement?
>
> Liz
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