> On Jul 27, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 9:00 AM, <gnucash-devel-requ...@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> >> From: "David T." <sunfis...@yahoo.com> >> To: GnuCash-Devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> >> Cc: >> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:25:11 +0500 >> Subject: New Account Dialog >> Hello, >> >> In recent weeks, there have been a number of threads on the user list in >> which users have had difficulties setting up accounts for equities and >> mutual funds. These users have not been able to set the Security/Currency >> to an appropriate value because the account type was not correctly set. >> >> I believe that the New Account dialog contributes to this problem by the >> way it is set up. The sequence of fields in the dialog does not match the >> required sequence of input; the user must correctly set the Account Type >> field (located at the bottom of the dialog) *BEFORE* they can correctly set >> the Security/currency field. >> >> Not only is this sequence confusing to new users, it is an annoyance for >> experienced users as well, since the user must manually relocate to the >> type field, set the type, and then manually relocate back to the currency >> field to set it. This quickly gets burdensome. >> >> At the very least, I would suggest that it would be much clearer and >> easier to all users to have the Account Type field placed immediately after >> the Description field, and that it be changed to a drop down list. This >> would make it clearer to new users and more efficient for others, without >> entailing a great deal of change to the program. >> >> I can add a bug to bugzilla if it seems that this would be useful. >> >> David >> >> >> > > >> >> David, >> >> I think that that's quite well explained in Chapter 8 of the guide, and >> the new user's problems are largely down to not reading the documentation >> before diving in. >> >> I agree with to your proposed change to the UI for 2.8, and it should be >> as you say fairly simple, probably only a Glade change with no code. Please >> do file a bug so that we remember to do it. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> > > > I am currently doing some work that will change the Account dialog for > other reasons. If everyone is in agreement, I can change the layout as > David suggests in the course of that work. I would probably commit that to > master in a few weeks.
Alex, That would be great, thanks! Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
