Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Josh Sled
Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > account name with an asterisk in it. Can anybody here identify the > address of the team working on "gnome for Windows" because they should > be made aware that there is a problem affecting their project. > > The implication is that the problem i

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 12:16 -0400 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: [snip] > The implication is that the problem isn't FIXABLE (can't make GnuCash > work completely properly for all legal Windows user account names) but > that doesn't mean it should be "no action". One possibility would b

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
>> >> >[[Maybe a bit off-topic for this mailinglist, but I thought it could give some >additional background]] > >... and some are already. A fine example is The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org), >an alternative image manipulation program for Photoshop. Whether it truly can >replace Photoshop is

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 8 August 2007 14:55, Dan Widyono wrote: > > What "leverage"? You imagine that any of these would be there in a > > Windows user's c:\documents and setting\userID (the Windows XP > > equivalent of $HOME/ ) for some other purpose than holding GnuCash data? > > I think I see what the prob

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Dan Widyono
> What "leverage"? You imagine that any of these would be there in a > Windows user's c:\documents and setting\userID (the Windows XP > equivalent of $HOME/ ) for some other purpose than holding GnuCash data? > I think I see what the problem might be and why hard to fix. This .gconf > stuff isn

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
> >Uh, I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but GnuCash does (should) create a >$HOME/.gnucash/ dir for its own storage, as well as leveraging the >$HOME/.gconf/ storage we've talked about. > > > Sorry -- but I don't understand. Yes, I see that GnuCash has created a directory named .gnucash (pr

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Josh Sled
Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have asked there whether this problem is "top level directory name" or > "anywhere in the path" because if the former, there may be a > (relatively) easy fix. GnuCash is the first "open app for Windows" that > I have encountered so far that di

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Josh Sled
Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>There are two approaches to book closing: >> >> > Maybe stop right there. As soon as there appear to be difficulties with the > "only" approaches step back one level of the process and maybe more > alternatives will appear. I wasn't really sayin

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
> > Very interesting observation. Does the directory ".gnucash" get > created on both account names? If it does, gnucash's handling of > account names and paths is correctly implemented. In that case we'd > have to forward the bugreport about the ".gconf" directory to the > GConf project:

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Josh Sled wrote: >The developer who started that work hasn't had a lot of time for GnuCash in >the last few years. I really hope he does respond, but I don't feel out of >order responding on his behalf. > > >There are two approaches to book closing: > > Maybe stop right there. As soon as there

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Christian Stimming
Quoting Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to do a little more than simply report any problems I find > from the point of view of an "end user" because with a little help, I > could. Welcome to the developer list. Sounds very good. > Here's the first one. I am of necessity t

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-06 Thread Josh Sled
Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Meanwhile, I understand that "close the books" isn't working. If whoever > is the developer on that portion wants a hand, please get in touch. The developer who started that work hasn't had a lot of time for GnuCash in the last few years. I rea

Intro + a bug

2007-08-06 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
It was suggested that I join this list in addition to the users list. I am a retired senior systems analyst with a few decades experience in software for a "financial". Well call that semi-retired as they sometimes tempt me back into the "cypher mines" for a little juicy consulting. At the mome