[GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

[John Ralls]

As I said, I see that as a documentation issue. The column labels have to be terse and we can’t use per-item tooltips in the long run because the Gtk folks have pulled them from Gtk4. It’s not great that Geert changed the headings for the amount columns from Deposit and Withdrawal to Amount and Amount(negated) but forgot to change the intro screen to reflect it.

The import dialog also lacks a help button. OTOH the context help is so clunky I wonder if anyone would use it. Would you?
Even if you would the actual documentation for importing CSV doesn’t explain all of the column headers and still says Deposit and Withdrawal.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jul 19, 2024, at 09:22, Greg Julius <greg.julius at outtacyte.com> wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I really struggled with this to figure out what was wrong with my imports.  There is a Commodity field and there is a Currency field.  I had to repeatedly fill in fields until I found the issue was Currency.
> 
> I also think all of you that help/develop this product do a great job.  
> 
> Blessings,
> -greg
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 10:40 AM
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> 
>> On Jul 19, 2024, at 00:10, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 2. An error message displayed "You must choose a commodity" is wrong and should be "You must choose a Security/currency" Choose AUD
>> 
> 
> That’s too narrow an interpretation of “commodity”. Both securities and currencies are commodities, but for example widgets are commodities but are neither securities nor currencies. The error message is correct, what’s apparently lacking is communicating to users the meaning of “commodity”. We’re also guilty of mixed messaging because we call the tool that manages commodities the Security Editor. Both are a larger problem than an error dialog in the CSV importer.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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