On Tuesday 28 May 2013 14:59:04 John Ralls wrote: > 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 > > It looks like David really tested 2.5.1: the typing error in "Withdrawal" was part of that version and fixed in 2.5.2.
David: 2.5.2 has already some speed improvements, though there is plenty of room for more. Can you evaluate that version and update your feedback based on it ? Thanks, Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
