Amen. I know its being addressed on the bug forum but this new approach is not good.
On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 10:51 AM Jack Lockard <[email protected]> wrote: > Frankly, I liked the way it worked in the earlier versions better. I did > not have to do near as much typing to get the previous transaction I wanted. > > With the new version it is either the extra typing or scrolling through a > long list, both of which are more time consuming. > > Part of the issue as I see it is that if you say type "am" in the > description the list includes items that start with "am", but it also > includes items that have "am" anywhere in the description. For instance, in > my case the list includes entries like James, Family, Amazon, Amy, Hampton, > and the list goes on. If it only should items that start with the entered > letters it would be much better IMO. > > Jack > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user <[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone > Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 11:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GNC] How to edit pop-up menu when typing transaction > descriptions > > How would you envision this would work in a case where you want to edit an > existing transaction that has a description which you've removed from the > list for new transactions? Since every transaction as it is being entered > is a 'new' transaction, where does this cutoff happen? > > Maybe an example could illustrate this use case? > > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 6/6/23 9:32 AM, David Carlson wrote: > > The problem with the solution that Adrien suggests is that there is a > > real possibility that the existing descriptions may be correct for > > existing transactions but inappropriate for new transactions. I think > > there is no solution as long as the current method is used to populate > > the list, so we must live with it. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
