Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-08 Thread Stan Brown
On 2021-10-07 16:39, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: > >> Of course there's Usenet, which doesn't require everyone to connect to > > Usenet is still active? > I though it died years ago. No, Google did its best to destroy it in favor of Google Groups. most formerly active newsgroups are

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 4.8: doesn't read or store config

2021-10-08 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi Klaus, the delay is no problem. However please remember to keep the conversation on-list... Before I redirect you to a bug, a few questions: did you build in an empty build directory and install in an empty install directory ? There may be interference from an older install. Or, do you have

Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-08 Thread Gerrit Holl
On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 21:42, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > I predict that we could have a big discussion about the pros and cons of > email lists and forums, and we would end up without a resolution; we > would discover that no one option works for everyone. For what it's worth, there are also ~280 ques

Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-08 Thread David H
There's also a Gnucash Reddit that is active at https://www.reddit.com/r/GnuCash/ Cheers David H. On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 18:19, Gerrit Holl wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 21:42, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > > > I predict that we could have a big discussion about the pros and cons of > > email lists a

Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-08 Thread Saša Janiška
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 00:08:02 -0700 Stan Brown wrote: > No, Google did its best to destroy it in favor of Google Groups. most > formerly active newsgroups are moribund, but some are still quite > active: misc.taxes.moderated, for instance. Following this mailing list via news.gmane.io and no need

Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 8 Oct 2021 00:08:02 -0700 Stan Brown wrote: > > > On 2021-10-07 16:39, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote: > > > >> Of course there's Usenet, which doesn't require everyone to connect to > > > > Usenet is still active? > > I though it died years ago. > > No, Google did its best to

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 4.8: doesn't read or store config

2021-10-08 Thread Thomas Boerner
Hey Klaus, In my case it was enough to set the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS to its correct value. See also https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798330 Cheers, Thomas Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2021, 10:14:31 CEST schrieb Geert Janssens: > Hi Klaus, the delay is no problem. However please

Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-08 Thread Stan Brown
On 2021-10-08 01:16, Gerrit Holl wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 21:42, Jim DeLaHunt wrote: > >> I predict that we could have a big discussion about the pros and cons of >> email lists and forums, and we would end up without a resolution; we >> would discover that no one option works for everyon

Re: [GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

2021-10-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 08 Oct 06:43 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > There is also GigiNews (US$4.99/month). I found https://www.aioe.org/ some years ago which gives access to text newsgroups and which I've used without issue, though I post very little. Toward the OP, one nice thing about email and mailing lis

Re: [GNC] Billing Terms Editor not "sticky"

2021-10-08 Thread Benjamin Soffer
Yes, you would think that's how it would work. But, in fact, it does now. When I post the invoice, it ignores the entry in the Billing Terms table. Benjamin E. Soffer | THE SOFFER LAW FIRM PC T 818.963.8998 21550 Oxnard Street, Suite 300 Woodland Hills, CA 91367-7109 www.soffer-law.com ___

[GNC] Default Accounting period permanent change (Ver 4.6 still..)

2021-10-08 Thread Doug
Hi, has anyone changed the default accounting period in the reports window? Currently they are set to 1 Jan to 31 Dec. Australian Tax year is 1 July to 30 June. I know I can set them report by report, but it would be nice to change the defaults. I am currently using ver 4,6 on Linux (PCLinu

[GNC] OFX - Citi Setup Trouble

2021-10-08 Thread Steve Welch via gnucash-user
Firstly, thanks to those who have offered advice already. I am still trying to get my Citi credit card transactions to download and having no success. I have tried what is in the Wiki, plus Colin’s suggestions and those posted previously by Nicholas Rood. When I request the account list from wi

Re: [GNC] Default Accounting period permanent change (Ver 4.6 still..)

2021-10-08 Thread Alan Hopkins
Hi Doug Nice to hear from another Aussie PCLOS & GNUCash user! I have the same version of GNC as you (as that's what is in the repo!) - I haven't been using GNC for long but I set the accounting period in the Preferences as Absolute to 1st July 20 to 30 Jun 21 (ie last fin year) a