On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:14:17AM +0100, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > In the create/edit account dialog, to make the account a toplevel > > account, you select an item called "create new top-level account". This > > is correct for the "new account" dialog, but can lead to user confusion > > in the "edit account" dialog (since they might think that selecting it > > will somehow create a new account instead of editing the current > > account). > > > > Daniel > > This dialogue has changed in gnucash 2.0.1 (current Debian version is > 2.0.1-2). When editing an existing account, the dialogue offers "New > top-level account" as the highest placed parent. The dialogue layout has > also changed.
I don't see how this is an improvement over the previous behavior. > In a real sense, setting an existing account as a top level account IS > making a new top level account. If before there were five top level > accounts (say Income, Expense, Assets, Liability and Equity) this change > (on say Expense|Motor|Fuel) would make Fuel a sixth top level account. Yes, I know that, but I have a graduate degree in computer science. I filed this bug report after watching my mother struggle to edit her account layout in Gnucash. I would suggest changing "New top-level account" to "Make this account a top-level account" or even "Change this account to a top-level account", to make it crystal-clear what it does. Daniel
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