[GNC] Upcoming report deprecation
David T.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue May 21 08:09:04 EDT 2019
I am not a fan of keeping reports that *no one uses* included in the application, on the offhand chance that some new user might decide to learn scheme and the gnucash api to write a new report. As noted in the bug, this has not been a particularly common occurrence.
Geert's solution is a good compromise, IMHO.
It would be easy enough to add a note to the Custom Reports wiki page to explain how a user would activate this.
David
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:24, Manfred Usselmann<manfred at usselmann.de> wrote:
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
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user [2]
> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists [3] for more information.
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Links:
------
[1] https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773198
[2] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
[3] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists
_______________________________________________
gnucash-user mailing list
gnucash-user at gnucash.org
To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
-----
Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
More information about the gnucash-user
mailing list