Hello devel: I am interested in the ability to make links to images. see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336843
As I looked into this, the notion came to me that a more general and user accessible meta data interface may satisfy image links as well as another long standing enhancement request: classes see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772. Another more recent need might also be addressed: dates see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600374. The structure for this seems to be in place, namely the KVP interface. There are at least two things missing - a link field type and the user interface to make it useful. What I am suggesting ( in a very skeleton way ) is that the Description field be changed, optionally, to be a popup type. With the popup, the user could maintain attributes with the following form: type: one of LINK,LIST,NOTE,DATE name: string, not required value: of TYPE, not required LIST,NOTE,DATE are types that already have a GnuCash interface. The KVP frame could store the data. LINK is new, and would need something like GtkFileChooser support along with appropriate validation. Of course, a new LINK field type would require much more thought. ( I have used in other situations the notion of a 'root' that is pre-pended to the link text, which makes things much easier to maintain and backup. ) As an example: LINK | BILL | rent/jan09.tiff LINK | letter | rent/jan09/fire_report.tiff NOTE | | The RB wants to charge me a full month when the place burned down Jan 12th? LINK | letter | rent/jan09/letter1.odt Filters would need a new tab for meta data, and reports would need a sample. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thomas _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
