Whats new in 2.0?

2006-04-12 Thread Bengt Thuree
Hi Trying to compose a draft for "Whats new in 2.0" in the first chapter of the guide. Would appreciate thoughts (and text) on what to list. /Bengt What's New in v2.0 Gnome 2.0 (Gtk2) GnuCash is now using the latest toolkist from gtk, and follows the normal Gnome2 HIG standards. UTF-8 support

Capital gains and lots fixes

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Alexander
I've been trying to clean up some of the securities transactions in my data file and in the process have discovered some problems in the handling of lots and capital gains and fixed a few of them. I wanted to create some proper bug reports for these, but I don't think I'm going to have time to

Re: Modify Chapter 8

2006-04-12 Thread Bengt Thuree
On To, 2006-04-13, 11:30, David Hampton skrev: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 07:35 +0800, Bengt Thuree wrote: > >> But I still have seen at least 3 questions on how to get online quotes >> from cron tab, > > Adding the following line to your crontab will retrieve quotes on the > first of each month at m

Re: compiling the concept guide : Where are the pictures?

2006-04-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 1) No longer generate html (don't need it with yelp) I would prefer it if there were still a rule to generate the html, so we can (easily) generate the docs for the website... 2) Remove the building of the index db (dont need it with yelp) okay. 3

Re: Modify Chapter 8

2006-04-12 Thread David Hampton
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 07:35 +0800, Bengt Thuree wrote: > But I still have seen at least 3 questions on how to get online quotes > from cron tab, Adding the following line to your crontab will retrieve quotes on the first of each month at midnight local time: 0 0 1 * * gnucash --add-price-quot

Re: Modify Chapter 8

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
David Herman wrote: I created a single HTML file then ran ti through OpenOffice to create a PDF file - nearly 200 pages (included "most" of the images). Are "we" creating a "tome" that will contain almost all the information that a user needs - but will never read? for sure never print! How a

Re: compiling the concept guide : Where are the pictures?

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
Actually its even easier than that. If you check out the latest svn code you can just do (from in the gnucash-docs directory); yelp guide/C/gnucash-guide.xml Which will bring up the docs in yelp without having to install/convert/do anything! The below just tests installing the docs, not nece

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
Ah, was late and I missed that. Indeed a script to convert from docbook to html should be easy to do, in fact I think this is being done with some gnome docs already. Chris Derek Atkins wrote: Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bengt Thuree wrote: With the great responce on t

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
I agree, please file this bug and mark it STRING in keywords so we know a string change is needed. Chris Derek Atkins wrote: Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1) There appears to be inconsistencies in screen names and enter forms using "commodity" and "security". Working through

Re: Screwy stuff in invoices, bills, etc

2006-04-12 Thread digger vermont
Hi Neil, On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 22:10 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > It might also be related to loading a data file from 1.8 into 1.9 - > especially > if that data file was loaded (and converted when saved) into one of the early I did have corruption problems early on, back in January. Howe

Re: Modify Chapter 8

2006-04-12 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:22 -0600, David Herman wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 16:10 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > > Hi > > > > Some small comments. > > > > 1) update-finance-quote has been renamed to "gnc-fq-update" > > 2) Add that for ubuntu (and other systems that require SUDO) you need to > >

Re: Screwy stuff in invoices, bills, etc

2006-04-12 Thread digger vermont
Thanks for the suggestion. I've never used anything but USD. Just to check, I looked at all customers, vendors and employees. I also greped for \ Check your currencies...This is a problem that manifests > when you try to combine multiple currencies in an invoice. Either > the accounts are i

Re: NEEDINFO about NEEDINFO

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:30:45PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 3a) The implication is that bugs currently marked NEEDINFO need to > > be re-evaluated for usefulness and that the bar for closing them is > > not necessarily any lower than for UNCO

Re: Screwy stuff in invoices, bills, etc

2006-04-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 9:49 pm, Derek Atkins wrote: > Check your currencies...This is a problem that manifests > when you try to combine multiple currencies in an invoice. It might also be related to loading a data file from 1.8 into 1.9 - especially if that data file was loaded (and con

Re: Screwy stuff in invoices, bills, etc

2006-04-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Check your currencies...This is a problem that manifests when you try to combine multiple currencies in an invoice. Either the accounts are in the wrong currencies, or the Customer is denoted in the wrong currency.. Or your A/R account is in the wrong currency.. So... Check your currencies

Screwy stuff in invoices, bills, etc

2006-04-12 Thread digger vermont
Hello All, I'm having trouble with the business end of G2. Some of this I've seen for some time and am only now getting to it. I don't know if any of this is related to bug #331771. Currently I'm at r13771. Here are some symptoms. I can send screenshots if helpful. I didn't want to needlessl

Re: Modify Chapter 8

2006-04-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting David Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I created a single HTML file then ran ti through OpenOffice to create a PDF file - nearly 200 pages (included "most" of the images). Are "we" creating a "tome" that will contain almost all the information that a user needs - but will never read? for sur

Re: Modify Chapter 8

2006-04-12 Thread David Herman
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 16:10 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > Hi > > Some small comments. > > 1) update-finance-quote has been renamed to "gnc-fq-update" > 2) Add that for ubuntu (and other systems that require SUDO) you need to > give the command with "sudo gnc-fq-update" > 3) Clarify how to get the

Re: NEEDINFO about NEEDINFO

2006-04-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3a) The implication is that bugs currently marked NEEDINFO need to > be re-evaluated for usefulness and that the bar for closing them is > not necessarily any lower than for UNCONFIRMED bugs. But, in the > future, NEEDINFO would mean that the bug ha

Re: Build errors

2006-04-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Vitaly Lipatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, I can't figure where is the problem: > > ERROR: In procedure scm_lreadr: > ERROR: > /home/lav/RPM/BUILD/gnucash-2.0/intl-scm/../src/import-export/qif-io-core/qif-parse.scm:22:48: > > illegal character in escape sequence: #\| > make[2]: *** [gu

Re: [Gnucash-changes] r13771 - gnucash/trunk - Update the determination of what's a currency and what isn't. Fixes

2006-04-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting David Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: and when should we use NS_CURRENCY? There are certainly many other places where NS_ISO is being used. I'll investigate. FYI: Updated to revision 13771. [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ find . -name \*.\[ch\] | xargs grep GNC_COMMODITY_NS_ISO | wc 23

Re: [Gnucash-changes] r13771 - gnucash/trunk - Update the determination of what's a currency and what isn't. Fixes

2006-04-12 Thread David Hampton
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 13:25 -0400, Mike Alexander wrote: > Good question. I had a number of accounts in my file which had a > gains-act slot that was keyed with ISO4217::USD. These all stopped > working when the currency category was changed until I added new > entries keyed with CURRENCY::US

Re: [Gnucash-changes] r13771 - gnucash/trunk - Update the determination of what's a currency and what isn't. Fixes

2006-04-12 Thread David Hampton
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:37 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting David Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > ns_name = gnc_commodity_namespace_get_name(cm->namespace); > > return (!safe_strcmp(ns_name, GNC_COMMODITY_NS_LEGACY) || > > -!safe_strcmp(ns_name, GNC_COMMODITY_NS_ISO));

Re: [Gnucash-changes] r13771 - gnucash/trunk - Update the determination of what's a currency and what isn't. Fixes

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Alexander
--On April 12, 2006 12:37:38 PM -0400 Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting David Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ns_name = gnc_commodity_namespace_get_name(cm->namespace); return (!safe_strcmp(ns_name, GNC_COMMODITY_NS_LEGACY) || -!safe_strcmp(ns_name, GNC_COMMODIT

Re: [Gnucash-changes] r13771 - gnucash/trunk - Update the determination of what's a currency and what isn't. Fixes

2006-04-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting David Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ns_name = gnc_commodity_namespace_get_name(cm->namespace); return (!safe_strcmp(ns_name, GNC_COMMODITY_NS_LEGACY) || -!safe_strcmp(ns_name, GNC_COMMODITY_NS_ISO)); +!safe_strcmp(ns_name, GNC_COMMODITY_NS_CURRENCY)); Que

NEEDINFO about NEEDINFO

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Shoemaker
Developers, I'd like to suggest that we agree upon a common use of the NEEDINFO flag in bugzilla. ISTM (correct me if I'm wrong, please) that Christian's (not to single out Christian, but he's the main bug-processor) current common practice is to respond to new bug reports with requests f

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-12 Thread Tim Wunder
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:57 pm, someone claiming to be Bengt Thuree wrote: > On On, 2006-04-12, 11:41, David Herman skrev: > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:45 -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > > > Also - there is one screen that I have NOT been able to screen capture- > > the options screen with the pu

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-12 Thread Bengt Thuree
On On, 2006-04-12, 11:41, David Herman skrev: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:45 -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote: > The text changes are OK - I think, however I had some comments about the > images. Specifically the title of the "window" i.e file names. Give me > a day or two to cleanup. > What do you thi