Hi, folks, I thought I'd write up a quick piece in this week's LWN on the 1.8-to-be release. So I pulled down 1.7.4. Things have come a long ways, congrats are due to the developers. That said, here's a few comments. Please let me know if I've missed something obvious...
- Installing gnucash hasn't gotten any easier over the years. I gave up trying to install from source on my Debian unstable system. The RH 7.x RPM, along with a gnucash.org g-wrap package, did the trick. (BTW, the linas.org download area seems to be rather behind the times...) - A default of "daily" for scheduled transactions does not seem particularly useful. It's nice to see this feature find its way into gnucash, but the interface seems a bit cumbersome, still. Some years ago I used to use MS Money; it had a nice, one-at-a-time interface for disposing of scheduled transactions. Why did gnucash go with a "make several passes over the list" approach? - Why no "twice a month" frequency for scheduled transactions? One can fake it with two monthly transactions, but... - Almost every gnucash window comes up too small on my system; I have to resize them to see the full contents. In a bit of extra obnoxiousness, the main window occasionally resizes itself into something really small. - I get tons of complaints like: The font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-80-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1" does not support all the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915" (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") (Missing character set "ISO8859-15") Most things work fine anyway, but the "druid" windows come up blank. There must be a way to tell it to look for a font it likes, but I couldn't find it. - The business features are a nice step in the right direction. But...why can't I *type* a customer name when creating an invoice? How do I customize the invoice format? I couldn't even find a way to get my own address information into it, other than, perhaps, via a "logo" image. - The documentation is good, as far as it goes. I can't find any documentation of the new business features, though. I *think* its definitions of "payable" and "receivable" accounts are reversed. Don't take the above as indicative of how my article will read; there's a lot of good stuff in this release and I will point it out. Thanks, jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
