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 be for > the "first time" routine to check whether the directory it is being > asked to set up is "legally named" (as far a gnome is concerned) and if > not, temporarily pasues the process to explain the problem. Might > suggest that the user either: > 1) abort (option provided) to allow the system administrator to allocate > another user account whose name would not be a problem (tell what the > "illegal" characters are). The Windows user would then use this other > account for GnuCash. > 2) allow to proceed (option provided) warning the what the user what > won't work (there may be more things than just being unable to save > preference changes. That might not be totally unacceptable while the > person LEARNS about GnuCash. An administrator can always later copy the > books to another user's data area.
or 3) ask the user for a path to a directory which passes the test, add an according gconf source to ~\.gconf.path and restart the gconf daemon. IIRC, this is what is done if the schema files are not installed correctly (at least automatically on Windows---Unixes provide the user with more flexibility, read some druid). I will keep trying. I am sorry about my old 2'), which muddled up installing user and end user, just forget that. > Alternatively, if it is decided that account names that will cause > problems are so rare that not worth a coding effort, then at least > something in the "read me" for the Windows install. Yes I know people > tend not to read those until AFTER encountering difficulties, but if > they then look and see an explanation of "Problem with some legal > Windows account names" telling them what to do at least it won't be a > mystery. Ack. > Michael -- andi5 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
