The developers love volunteers. Care to help? On Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 4:42 PM ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
> On 2020-09-12 10:27, John Ralls wrote: > > > > > >> On Sep 11, 2020, at 11:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > >> > >> On 2020-09-10 21:42, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > >>>> On 9/9/20 1:05 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > >>>>> Not that I'm aware of, but just tab or shift-tab to the other column. > >>>>> A negative credit is a positive debit and vice versa. If you try > >>>>> entering a negative, you'll see GnuCash moves it to the other column > >>>>> as a positive anyway. > >>>>> > >>>>> Regards, > >>>>> Adrien > >>>>> > >>>>> On 9/9/20 12:31 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user wrote: > >>>>>> Fedora 32 > >>>>>> gnucash-4.1-1.fc32.x86_64 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I have a number of program that accept negative numbers > >>>>>> with the minus sign at the end `123.45-` or inside > >>>>>> parenthesis `(123.56)`. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Is there a way to tell GnuCash to do this also? I > >>>>>> keep entering it the other way and having to go back > >>>>>> and put the minus sign in the front. > >>> On 2020-09-09 13:18, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > >>>> You may also enter an enhancement request in bugzilla. > >>>> > >>> Will do! > >>> RFE: add ledger style negative number input > >>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797939 > >>> RFE: please give the ability to add notes to simple ledger view > >>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797940 > >> > >> Both were duplicates of four year or more old bugs. > >> Shades of Libre Office and Wine. User input > >> is ignored unless you can pony up. This is sad. > >> But it is the open source model. Give the code away > >> for free and charge for maintenance > >> > > > > There is no "pony up". > > > > GnuCash is a *gift* of tens of thousands of hours work by a few dozen > *unpaid* individuals over 20 years. All of the people on this list who have > helped you are also unpaid volunteers. All of the infrastructure is > provided and supported by volunteers who also donate the power and > connectivity to keep the servers running and usable. While donations to the > "tip jar" are surely welcome--and paid for a new server last year--the only > solicitation is a link on the web page. > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > You ever get a letter from Red hat or Wine or Libre > Office explaining that you need to "hire" them to > get your bugs fixed? This is the open source model. > Open source is not a free lunch. > > Individuals can never afford to put their developers > on the payroll. They want a whole lot more that a > tip jar too. And they do seriously deserve to be > paid for what they do. They ARE providing a service. > > Lets hope Gnu Cash's developers are a little more > responsive to requests from underfunded users in > the future. Or at least tag requests over a year > old as "won't fix" so folks will quit asking for it. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
