On May 28, 2013, at 2:53 PM, David T. <[email protected]> wrote: > I was trying out 2.5.1 on my Mac (Mountain Lion) and was prepared to report > that it was crashing when I tried closing and then re-opening my main > checking account register. Every time I did, I got a beach ball/hourglass, > and had to force quit the application. > > I thought the problem had to do with the fact that my Accounts were set to > use tab color designators (which are not displaying, BTW). But loading a > couple of other colored-tab accounts worked. That was when I remembered the > thread regarding SLOW loading. Sure enough, when I tried again to open my > account, and this time waited over two minutes (!!), my account opened in the > new register. So consider this another voice raised for needing this to work > faster. I truly thought I had crashed the software! > > Having loaded the new register, I see what folks have been saying about the > screen flag for future transactions. Personally I think it does not work. > Users looking at the register see it naturally as a flow of time from the top > of the screen to the bottom, and having the blue horizontal line is highly > effective at indicating a transition from past to future. Having a vertical > bar might work, but is nowhere near as obvious. Furthermore, embedding this > bar two thirds of the way off to the right makes no sense to me at all. At > the very least, it should default to the left-most position. I was able to > move it to the left--by moving all the other fields to the right, which was > quite cumbersome. I think the old way would be clearer. Or perhaps the entire > transaction could have a different background color if its in the future? > > I'll note that the correct heading is "Withdrawal", not "Withdrawl." > > Finally, the click-sortable columns is really neat, but I would like to see > it possible to have a "Click to restore the default sort order" button. I did > not see any way to return to this sort order once I had clicked on a heading. > This is especially frustrating since the tendency to re-sort a column is > great when one is simply trying to resize the columns. >
Thanks for the report. I hope you mean 2.5.2, released today, rather than 2.5.1 from 3 weeks ago. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
