Hi, I am now at a real computer keyboard and I have reviewed the current documentation on a device with a larger screen.
The Tutorial seems to be far more detailed than I recall from the days when I was first learning how to use GnuCash. That is good. However, I think that new users may find that daunting, and a synopsis has a lot of value there. The other thing that I noticed is that the help manual does not have any descriptions of the New Account dialog, the price editor or the security editor or the components of each. I think that these need to be added to that manual. Thanks to all for your efforts in this area. David C On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:51 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel < gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: > I have put this into a bug: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769256 < > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769256> > > > On Jul 28, 2016, at 5:25 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
