[GNC] Tabs Behaviors in GNC4.1

[David Carlson]

Geert,

Sorry, it was not my intention to single you out with my comments about how
the system appears to leave users out of the development loop.  I know you
and all the other active developers have limited time and can use whatever
help users can give short of re-training in the tools that you are using.

I was not aware that there was a nightly build for Linux.  That could be
useful when I get enough of my personal prerequisites out of the way to try
the current 4.x builds.

I hope you are able to stay healthy and safe in these difficult times.


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 4:00 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op woensdag 16 september 2020 21:46:14 CEST schreef David Carlson:
>
> > Geert,
>
> >
>
> > I believe some users have backed off of trying to express informed
> opinions
>
> > about program development or documentation development because of various
>
> > roadblocks that have been thrown up. Sometimes we are ignored, sometimes
>
> > asked to learn obscure new skills, and occasionally chastised for waiting
>
> > until after the fact to 'complain', to name a few.
>
> >
>
> We're all contributing what we can in the limited time we have available.
> If you feel being ignored, my apologies. Though that's probably because the
> devs ran out of time/energy not because your opinion didn't matter.
>
>
>
> As for the obscure new skills, that depends on what we are talking about.
> I think most users should be capable of installing a nightly build of
> gnucash to test the current state of the program. That option is available
> on Windows and linux.
>
>
>
> > There is a gap that we are having a hard time trying to deal with. I
> don't
>
> > know if there would be a way to 'warn' users about pending changes before
>
> > they are released. Some programs put changes into an official beta
> release
>
> > available to the general public some time before moving to the stable
>
> > release. Just an idea.
>
> >
>
> We do pre-releases for each major release. For GnuCash 4.x there were
> 3.902 to 3.906. Those were the "official beta" releases as far as I can
> tell. We did catch and revert another behavioural change thanks to user
> testing during that cycle (that reverted change involved the way column
> preferences for registers were stored) so it does matter if you test.
>
>
>
>
>
> But perhaps I'll just have to back off myself. I believe I'm getting
> burned out on gnucash support. Sorry.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Geert
>


-- 
David Carlson