[GNC] gnucash @ Mac OS annoyances

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 15, 2018, at 12:21 AM, Thomas Klausner <tk at giga.or.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm a long-time gnucash user, and tried out the Mac OS version (3.2)
> for the first time today. I was using the official binary downloaded
> from sourceforge.
> 
> I have the following issues that I hadn't seen before on other OS:
> 
> * When I start typing the Description, it auto-completes, but does not
>  automatically select the completed part, which makes it much harder
>  to write new entries.
> 
>  E.g. if I want to write "Bank" but "Bus" already exists, I get
>  "Bankus" because "us" is not selected and automatically overwritten
>  when I type the "u". So I manually have to select and delete the
>  autocompleted part I don't want.
> 
> * When I enter an account name, ":" does not work to select the subaccount.
> 
>  I.e. when I type "E:C" I don't get "Expenses:Car" selected, but just
>  "E:Cxpenses". I can choose the account I want with the up/down keys,
>  but that's much slower with many subaccounts.
> 
> * I liked my Umlauts, but I usually enter them using "Option+u u".
>  However, when I press "Option" in an Account Creation (or Edit)
>  dialog, the input field loses its focus (it does work in
>  "Description" fields when entering transactions). It also worked in
>  the initial account creation dialogs.
> 
>  Here I have the workaround of entering the letter in some other
>  application and copy'n'pasting it, and I don't need this dialog that
>  often, but it would be nice if it worked anyway.
> 
> The first two items are quite annoying. Are there solutions or at
> least workarounds for this?
> 
> Should I file bug reports?

The first two are the same and already reported as https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796734 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796734> and there’s a workaround explained there.

The third one is new, so please do file a bug report on it. It’s not option by itself, it’s option-u or more correctly alt-u, is set as a binding somewhere. There’s no problem entering é, for example.

Regards,
John Ralls