On Wednesday 25 September 2013 11:11:21 David Carlson wrote: > On 9/25/2013 10:02 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Frédéric Perrin <f...@fperrin.net> writes: > >> Yes. OTOH, beyond the locale currency, we can't decide for the user > >> what is meant by $ or £. Do you think this is too much trouble for > >> something users won't bother to configure ? > > > > Possibly, yes. > > > >> I guess we can decide to use $ for USD, £ for GBP and for the other > >> currencies, invent some qualifier. CAD already has C$, but e.g. > >> Brunei and Bahamain both have B$. How do we resolve this ambiguity > >> ?> > > Maybe. Maybe not.. One possibility would be to have defaults in > > the > > iso-4217-currencies and a flag (which the user can set) for whether > > to display it. > > > >>> worse, GConf editing is really only simple on Linux, so you're > >>> leaving out users of Mac and Windows. > >> > >> Editing GConf was only for development, if the idea is sound we'd > >> hopefully also get a GUI editor (new tab in the Pref dialog ?). > > > > While interesting, this would be a lot of effort! :) > > But go ahead if this is your plan. > > You could start with built-in defaults and let the user change them; > > perhaps on a per-datafile setting? (That would indeed be easiest). > > Or I guess it could go into the user's "global" settings. Hard to > > say what's the Right Thing here. > > > > -derek > > As another user I would suggest per data file. One user may want > different settings in another file. > > David C
I would rather see it per data file as well. And if you are going to do a GUI to edit this, how about making it a currency editor, something like the commodity editor now, but then for currencies ? The iso-4217-currencies can serve as preset currencies, which the user can edit, or even add custom currencies (think Bitcoin and friends). Perhaps that's too wide a scope though... I'm just thinking out loud how what you want to achieve can do much more with some additional effort. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
