[GNC] Upgrade 4.4 tp 4.5 annoyances on flatpak

[Dale Alspach]

I did not make any modifications directly. I have no idea of the details of
what is modified by the system updater but I tend to let the updates pile
up for a few weeks, run the install and reboot (if there are low level
updates). This update of gnucash was in fact an unexpected side effect of
an update and reboot.

Dale

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 8:28 AM Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> forget my previous mail. I mixed up the release and the nightlies. The
> release got the 3.38 runtime, which was already in use almost a half
> year in the nightlies – without complains.
>
> There must be another reason. Did you by chance delete something in
> ~/.var/app or another place mentioned for flatpak in
> wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations?
>
> Regards
> Frank
>
> Am 24.04.21 um 00:01 schrieb 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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