[GNC] Paying business vendor invoice: enter vendor's name twice

[Geert Janssens]

Op zaterdag 27 april 2019 21:03:37 CEST schreef Rich Shepard:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2019, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > Notice the ‘else’ at the beginning of the second sentence. Only use that
> > select button to open a find dialog if GnuCash doesn’t manage to give you
> > the desired vendor in an auto-complete list.
> 
> Ah so. Having the 'Select' button immediately adjacent to the vendor name
> text entry widget _implies_ the user wants to select that vendor. It has not
> be obvious (or 'intuitive' as applications like to call it) that after
> entering the vendor's name I just click the OK button. The position of the
> dialog box suggested to me that gnucash should select the entered name.
> 
:)

A bit of history of how this came about:
The select button used to be the only way to select a vendor. Originally you 
couldn't type anything in the box. That was even more burdensome. Then 
directly typing a vendor name (and selecting it in the dropdown list) was 
added, which was in many cases a big improvement. The select button wasn't 
removed as sometimes you don't know the exact vendor name (different prefix or 
something), or you need to enter a new one. Both options are still possible 
via the select button.

I do agree the halfway fix is not perfect and can cause some confusion.

Regards,

Geert