[GNC] How to edit pop-up menu when typing transaction descriptions

[Jack Slater]

Amen. I know its being addressed on the bug forum but this new approach is
not good.

On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 10:51 AM Jack Lockard <JELockard at outlook.com> wrote:

> Frankly, I liked the way it worked in the earlier versions better. I did
> not have to do near as much typing to get the previous transaction I wanted.
>
> With the new version it is either the extra typing or scrolling through a
> long list, both of which are more time consuming.
>
> Part of the issue as I see it is that if you say type "am" in the
> description the list includes items that start with "am", but it also
> includes items that have "am" anywhere in the description. For instance, in
> my case the list includes entries like James, Family, Amazon, Amy, Hampton,
> and the list goes on. If it only should items that start with the entered
> letters it would be much better IMO.
>
> Jack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+jelockard=outlook.com at gnucash.org>
> On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone
> Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 11:06 AM
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] How to edit pop-up menu when typing transaction
> descriptions
>
> How would you envision this would work in a case where you want to edit an
> existing transaction that has a description which you've removed from the
> list for new transactions? Since every transaction as it is being entered
> is a 'new' transaction, where does this cutoff happen?
>
> Maybe an example could illustrate this use case?
>
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 6/6/23 9:32 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> > The problem with the solution that Adrien suggests is that there is a
> > real possibility that the existing descriptions may be correct for
> > existing transactions but inappropriate for new transactions.  I think
> > there is no solution as long as the current method is used to populate
> > the list, so we must live with it.
>
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