[GNC] Upgrade 4.4 tp 4.5 annoyances on flatpak

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hello Dale,

it seems most of the points are based on the loss of your previous settings.

The Gnome devs tricked us here by offering a platform 40 as successor of
3.38. You can think, 40 is the successor of 38, that should be a minor
ungrade. But in fact it goes from 3.x to 40, a major jump with changes
like moving the dconf location, gtk 3 -> 4 …

Still undecided what to do: redo the bundle with runtime 3.38, John?

Regards
Frank

Am 23.04.21 um 22:42 schrieb Dale Alspach:
> My install was upgraded this week (flathub) from gnucash 4.4 to 4.5 on
> Linux Mint 20.
> I think some of these have been reported by others.
> 1. First gnucash opened as though I was a new user and needed a new account
> setup. I was able to stop this and get to the file menu and my last
> saved version. The load of my file takes a while and there was no
> indication that it was actually working and not hung. It did finally finish
> loading.
> 2. Autosave was not working. Though after three days and quitting and
> restarting it asked me a few minutes ago whether I wanted autosave to work.
> Now it appears to be working (fingers crossed).
> 3. Some settings/preferences were lost. Examples: blank transaction before
> future transactions, my open tabs
> 4. The memory of past transactions was odd. In one account it seemed to be
> fine but in another it would complete the description but not the other
> account or amount. Now it seems to be working correctly.
> 5. It defaulted to fractional presentation  for some columns for
> investments. Changing the decimal preferences fixed this.
> 6. Apparently a new feature was implemented which is annoying me. In the
> past I was able to open a credit card account and clear several
> transactions without hitting "enter". Now I am having to retrain myself to
> click the "n" and then hit "enter" to avoid getting a discard/save popup. I
> can see that trying to change "y" to "n" or "c" might trigger the dialogue
> but I would prefer that switching between "n" and "c" not.
> 
> I wonder whether it was necessary to quit and restart to get gnucash
> working correctly with my data file.
> 
> Dale
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