I will try to have a look at these this weekend and see if I can't address some of these concerns. Need to get in front of a computer where I can play with this stuff.
Cheers, Darin On August 10, 2004 10:56 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:48:10PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > I checked it out, and compiled it. > > > > Here are some initial impressions. I'll look more closely later. > > Second look: more comments: > > 1) In New Budget Category setup, the period column says monthy:10, even > though I selected the 1st of the month in previous window. > 2) If there is some way to modify existing categories, I can't find it. > Oh, apparently, that's what "open" does. Clicking 'cancel' in "modify > category" crashed gnucash. > 3) Clicking "new category" opens a window titled "modify category". > Clicking 'cancel' in "modify category" crashes gnucash. > 4) Clicking "open" in "new category" window throws: > > (gnucash:3076): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkentry.c: line 3545 > (gtk_entry_set_text): assertion `text != NULL' failed > Related Accouts: 0 > > (gnucash:3076): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from > `GncTreeModelAccount' to `GtkTreeModelSort' > > (gnucash:3076): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktreemodelsort.c: line 2016 > (gtk_tree_model_sort_get_model): assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL_SORT > (tree_model)' failed > 5) Clicking "ok" in "modify category" window also crashes gnucash. > 6) Similar crashes in "modify category" window opened from "budget > setup" tab. > > 7) Important: This seems like essential functionality: amounts I enter in > "balance budget" tab don't show up in "track budget" planned column, or > anywhere else. > > 8) [FIXED] Budgets remain alive even when budget workbench is closed and > reopened. They also retain previous settings. > 9) "delete" budget does nothing. > > -chris > > > 1) It compiles! > > 2) When I click on new budget the "new budget 'druid'" opens _behind_ > > the budget list. I think it should be in front. > > 3) In fact, it seems to be _permanently_ behind the budget list. > > 4) In category setup window are "inflow" and "outflow" preferable terms > > over traditional "income", "expense"? > > 5) Is "total budget balance" really a budgetting category, or is it > > really a budget _reporting_ category? > > 6) Perhaps a newly created budget should automatically be opened for > > editing. After the budget was created it took me a sec to figure out > > what the next thing to do was. > > 7) The second time I clicked on budget workbench, the budget I created > > was gone. Maybe this is what was meant by "saving the budget" not > > working. I thought it meant saving to a file, across consecutive > > executions of gnucash. > > 8) When clicking on "new budget" the second time, to re-create what was > > lost, gnucash crashed. I restarted. > > 9) When entering budget amounts, it would be nice to navigate from cell > > to cell with the keyboard arrow keys instead of only with the mouse. > > 10) There's probably eventually a place for enhancement with feature > > like "distribute $X evenly over all budget periods for this account". > > 11) In "budget balance" tab of budget workbench, I see "total budget > > balance". It makes sense here, but if I hadn't kept it in "category > > setup" would it not appear here? > > 12) Track budget: doesn't this rightly belong as a report, and not part > > of the budget workbench? Anyway, period planned column seems to only > > show zero. > > 13) Date format on Balance budget tab columns is d/m/y, while on track > > budget, mm/dd/yy. Very confusing. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
