A long time ago I filed a bug report < https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686051> about needing to have an easy way to navigate to those edited but not committed transactions that trigger the warnings when closing the file or clicking on Save. I vote to escalate that bug.
David C On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 12:44 PM, David T. via gnucash-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On May 21, 2018, at 6:14 PM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Op maandag 21 mei 2018 13:08:05 CEST schreef Robert Fewell: > >> I have been looking at getting the middle mouse button to work for > pasting > >> selected text and whilst trying to do that started to wonder about the > >> existing preselected text. > >> > >> Currently... > >> If you open a register, the blank transaction date text is preselected. > >> If you start Gnucash with saved open registers, the last register in the > >> list to load has the blank date text preselected, this may not be the > >> current open register. > >> > > I would like to point out that I find *this* aspect of the register > behavior highly confusing. The “Select a field in a register that is not > the current one” problem crops up at other times. I am not certain, but I > think it happens when a modal dialog is closed. It is extremely frustrating > to be working in a register that is not the bottom-most and then discover > that your typing is going into a register that is NOT the one you are > currently working in! Moreover, you may not even be aware that you are > changing a transaction that is out of sight—and if you choose to leave > GnuCash at this juncture, you will get a mysterious dialog asking if you > want to save your changes (huh? what changes? I guess I better!). And THEN, > you have no idea the next time what happened in that OTHER register. > > I am grateful that someone else has seen this behavior and commented on > it. I’d like to see it changed. > > David T. > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
