I think the balance between users of gnc and developers of gnc has
broken down.
My personal instinct is inclined towards development, towards software
getting better, being more inclusive, making things easier, you get the
drift.
Unfortunately it seems some personal projects got in the way of making
gnc 5 better for everyone.
The most obvious interaction fail is transaction completion which should
have been an improvement but has ended up as an "I'm right, you are all
wrong" issue :(
see 798829 – 5.0 transaction completion features are buggy (gnucash.org)
<https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798829#c21> for details :(
For small organizations / charitable organizations / whatever they are
in your locale, v5 broke reporting in a significant way.
see 798809 – Multicolumn report error when reopened after saving.
(gnucash.org) <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798809>
why? because preparing a standard set of reports is what is expected of
small businesses, etc
it is understood, pretty much in every jurisdiction, that you start with
last year's balance sheet, you add in the income statement for the last
year and present this year's balance sheet
we call this accounting
we call this reporting
it is "where we were", "what happened", "where we are"
Unfortunately, gnc5 *BROKE* the reporting mechanism that was working before.
In fact, it is sufficiently broken that gnc5 CAN NOT BE USED for any set
of accounts if a *single* date or *single* account needs to be changed.
Basically, if you have organised a good set of accounts, carefully put
them together and saved them, YOU ARE *insert your worst word*. It is
that bad.
Fun fact? The people that broke this don't seem concerned.
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Wm ...
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