Issues with Invoicing in 2.6.12 on Win 7-64

[Derek Atkins]

Greg,

Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Do you ever have taxable items?  If not, then just remove the Taxable
>> column from the invoice report?
>>
>
> GF: It's been a couple of years since I started using GC, and I haven't
> yet.  However I may in the future.  Plus, I'm worried it might be an audit
> liability, having some record of items marked taxable for which I collect
> no tax.  Just another thing to have to explain or take heat for in case I'm
> audited.

IANAA, but honestly I don't think that you'd be audited over this.  I
think you're worrying over nothing.  It's not like the IRS *sees* your
invoices, they would only audit you if they think you're reported income
and taxes don't seem to be right.

>> >> Other than that I agree it's a user interaction anomaly and I don't know
>> >> the motivation to implement it as such. Perhaps Derek knows, but he may
>> not
>> >> be around right now.
>>
>> Well, it was implemented as a toggle-switch using the available register
>> widgets.  That particular widget requires mouse entry to toggle.  It
>> seemed like the right solution at the time, as there wasn't a widget
>> that would allow tabbing into that would toggle between a list of items
>> (to limit the input).
>>
>> Making the default setting an option would be one approach.  That would
>> let you set it to default to "off" instead of "on".  Of course, then
>> when you DID have a taxable entry you would need to use the mouse to
>> swap the field.
>>
>> Another option would require changing the widget the allow tabbing into
>> it.  That would probably be more work.
>>
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>
> ​GF:  Well I've been using GC for a while now and my only complaint are
> these little UI smoothness issues.  I'd like it a bunch if this were fixed
> up, but all-in-all, the program works great and suits my needs.  ​As I lurk
> on this list, I see people getting help with much bigger problems, heh,
> actual problems, not fussy UI issues.  All you developers keep up the good
> work.  I'll turn this into a enhancement request and maybe it'll come true
> some day.

Luckily for you this is an open source project, which means you can dive
in and fix it; patches are always welcome!

> Kind regards,
>
> Greg Feneis

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