[GNC] gnucash @ Mac OS annoyances

Thomas Klausner tk at giga.or.at
Wed Aug 15 17:14:33 EDT 2018


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 06:52:03AM -0700, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.

Thank you, the workaround works for me.

> 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.

I've filed https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796810 for this.

Cheers,
 Thomas


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