Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006-02-28 01:00:08 +0100 : > Users of gnucash who are willing to use this experimental software > are desired. It is not a good idea for every casual user to use it > (or I would have put it in unstable), but testing will help the > process along.
Okay. Built it in a pbuilder chroot (it does take quite some time :-), then installed it into same chroot, and started using it in a VNC after copying my roland.xac into the chroot. First impressions (posted here as much to give potential new users a warning of what doesn't exactly work yet as in an attempt to prove that there *can* be some on-topic content on this list despite current rumours): - Data seems to have been correctly imported (phew). - Accounts names seem to have been mangled a bit, especially for non-ASCII characters. They were stored as é for an "é" in 1.8, which now appears as the oh-so-familiar é. I run under an fr_FR.UTF-8 locale in both cases. - Still locale-related: no, the monetary unit in use in fr_FR.UTF-8 shouldn't be USD :-) - And again: I haven't seen anything displayed in French, which makes me wonder if maybe the locale setting isn't taken into account (haha) at all. - I haven't managed to expand the graphs horizontally as much as I'd have liked, apparently I can't have a report wider than it is high. Since the captions are apparently proportional in size to the report itself, the actual graphics are very tightly compressed to the left of the report. - In the Help menu, only the Tips of the Day and the About entries have any effect. The other two seem inoperant (which is a pity, I'd have loved to learn about this new "books" thing). - I tried closing my books, and apparently one transaction wasn't categorised into a book, so it appears all by itself above the book-closing transaction. - After closing the books, I couldn't find a way to access the transactions of the previous years in their account tabs (even read-only), only through a hack (search for transactions by date). Are they really hidden, or was I bitten by the "no help" problem? - I love the new hierarchical display in the quote editor -- the previous everything-in-the-same-list was getting tedious after hundreds of quotes. Otherwise, it seems to work, but I'm not exactly a heavy user. Question though: will the SQL support be enabled at some point? I think that would open up a lot of possibilities (gateways with other apps, for instance). Thanks, visible evolution coming from Gnucash is a relief, I was starting to wonder whether I'd have to switch to something else... :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish. -- in the tunefs(8) manual page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
