[GNC] Upcoming report deprecation

[Manfred Usselmann]

Hi Geert, 

Am 18.05.2019 14:20, schrieb Geert Janssens: 

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773198 [1]
> This bug proposes to remove a number of reports from the reports menu on the 
> assumption these reports are primarily demo's of what can be achieved in 
> gnucash, but have limited actual value. This is about the following reports:
> 
> Average Balance
> Expenses vs. Day of Week
> Income vs. Day of Week
> Sample Report with Examples
> 
> Instead of completely removing them I plan to move them to a separate 
> "Examples" sub menu (the former "Sample & Custom" menu)

IMO this is an excellent solution. 

> and hide this menu by 
> default. It could be made visible by running gnucash with the '--extra' 
> command line switch.

Not sure that I like this. This would probably be the same as if they
get deleted because nobody would know that these reports and this extra
switch exists. 

I would just leave the examples menu visible. 

Regards,
Manfred 

> If you are actively using any of these reports please let us know which ones 
> and also how these reports benefit you in practice.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
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