Error in Tip of the Day

Daniel Narvaes dnarvaes at sbcglobal.net
Fri Dec 15 22:25:29 EST 2017


On Fri, 2017-12-15 at 09:36 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op zondag 10 december 2017 22:26:40 CET schreef Daniel Narvaes:
> > 
> > I've been using gnucash for a long time, and I usually read the tip
> > of the
> > day, and try it if I have not seen it before.  Today it said "To
> > switch
> > between multiple tabs in the main window, press Control+Page
> > Up/Down."  I
> > tried it and it didn't work.  After browsing the users mailing
> > list, I
> > found out the correct key combination is "Ctrl+Alt+Page Up/Down."
> > 
> > I'm using gnucash 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.  Can someone check
> > and see if
> > the description is still wrong on the latest version?  If so, I'll
> > file a
> > bug report, unless you want to do that for me too.  I would still
> > have to
> > create an account on Bugzilla to make a bug report.
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> You are correct it should be "Ctrl-Alt-Page Up/Down". That's how it
> works on 
> the current stable version (2.6.18) as well.
> 
> On the current development version this appears to be broken. It will
> only 
> work if a notebook tab is clicked on first (which is defeating the
> initial 
> idea). And it breaks down on report pages.
> 
> Please do file a bug report and feel free to quote my findings as
> well.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Geert
> 
So, I created an account on Bugzilla, and when I started typing a
description of the bug, it referred me to similar bug reports.  It
turns out there are already a couple of bug reports on this issue,
one of which is over ten years old!

Can you take a look and see if you think there is anything else that
needs to be added to the existing bug reports?
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647744
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450717

-Daniel


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