On 5/29/2013 3:10 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > 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 > I am the other David- David Carlson. Last night I installed 2.5.2 windows build on Windows 7 64 bit. If you look at the IRC channel, I started documenting 3 errors when opening a file. Please do not shoot the messenger. David C
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