[GNC] latest gnucash release (3.1) feedback

Tue May 8 08:34:54 EDT 2018

Anthony,

I see what you mean about the tabs loading. I have the CoA, Receivable & Payables aging reports, and a Current Period Income Statement report on startup. Each load one by one after the main window appears. I just tested with my 2.6.21 copy and while the main window opened with everything already loaded, this happened because the reports were ‘built’ while the splash screen was still up. And it took much longer on 2.6 to build the reports than with 3.1. So 3.1 is much faster to load my reports, and the main window appears sooner. While I wouldn’t call it a ‘flicker’ it does appear different to the user. I normally don’t notice it since I started using 3.1 because I rarely close the application so I rarely re-start it.

I haven’t noticed any sluggishness during regular use save for the context-menu in registers and invoices which sometimes seems to take a few seconds to ‘wake up’ and become active after appearing. I had a bug report on another issue with that menu so I suppose I need to file another to address that point.

That crash report would possibly have been useful in a bug report or help here on the list. It’s probably still available from Console.app.

I too had a crash right after using 3.0, but it turned out to be a mouse event that whacked the application and wasn’t a repeatable event. It ran fine afterwards.

Perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to start a thread about your crash and attach your crash report as a .txt file.

Regards,
Adrien

> On May 8, 2018, at 6:56 AM, Anthony Dardis <adardis at runbox.com> wrote:
> 
> I had similar experiences with 3.1 on OS X 10.13.4 on a 2015 MacBook Air. My standard setup opens 4 accounts and one report, a version of Balance Sheet that presents an overview. With 2.6.19, they all open at once; with 3.1-1, they open in sequence (is there also a redraw in there somewhere?) which gives an impression of "flashing".
> 
> My impression is that the colors/fonts/UI/etc are better in 3.1-1 (that is: they look great!) but the system is working harder to make this happen and so it "feels" less robust.
> 
> (One bit of UI that I missed: in 2.6.19 a "swipe left" mouse pad gesture in the tab bar brings you to the left (or to the leftmost tab); 3.1 seems not to have this any more?)
> 
> I had the "can't parse user file" issue with 3.0-1, and it went away with 3.1-1.
> 
> I had a crash, though, which put me back to 2.6.19. I was reconciling each of my high activity accounts at beginning of month last week; the first two went smoothly; I opened the account to reconcile the third, clicked the Reconcile button, and GnuCash crashed "completely", just disappeared and stopped. The Apple crash dialog came up, but I wasn't sure if there was value in sending anything to Apple. No data loss, but concerning.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tony
> 
> On 5/8/18 1:19 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> You can tailor the colors and fonts to your liking using a custom CSS file. I’m not sure what you mean by ‘layout’ but the new Gtk+3 version does have more padding in many areas. I don’t think this is easily changeable, but it might be possible.
>> 
>> I’m not sure what is causing your flickering issues though. (I’m using High Sierra on a Mac Mini and don’t see any such issues) Those would probably be worth filing bug reports over. However, there’s a good chance those are video card related and might not be necessarily solvable via GnuCash code. Do you use any other Gtk+3 apps on your Mac? (if so and those apps don’t flicker, then that would help to show it is a GnuCash problem and not a Gtk problem)
>> 
>> Finally, note that there is a more recent version of 2.6, The latest out is 2.6.21. It fixes several bugs from that 2.6.19-1 release. (The 2.6.20 had some major issues precipitating the 2.6.21 ‘final’ 2.6 release)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On May 7, 2018, at 5:36 PM, Scott Cason via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have been using Gnucash for a while now on a OSX laptop.  So far I have been satisfied with all its nuances.  However, this latest release I am more than unhappy with.  I don't know if my issues are the same between all OS' but as for my Mac I have gone back to v2.6.19-1.
>>> What I do not like about the new 3.1 is:(1) there seems to be a lot of graphics issues at launch,,, page flickers and windows flash(2) basically, I do not like the way the color scheme works;  colored tabs almost makes it impossible to read the tab.  this is unlike prior versions where tab color did not interfere with tab titles(3) overall, I do not like the new layout/color/font... the look is totally different and I do not like it.(4) Maybe if there weren't issues 1 and 2, #3 would not be quite so noticeable and I might not have even noticed.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,Scott
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