On Tuesday 8 December 2009, Derek Atkins wrote: > Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> writes: > > On Monday 7 December 2009, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Looks fine to me. > >> > >> Also, if there is some way you can signal that the Invoice/Bill > >> selection is *optional* that would be good, too. > >> > >> -derek > > > > I could add a tooltip to the corresponding widgets ? Problem is, the > > "owner" can be Vendor or Customer, and "invoice" can become Invoice or > > Bill. So I'm unsure I can come up with a wording that is independent of > > this, unless something like this will do for now: > > I was thinking maybe something like: > > Customer: [=====] > * Invoice: [=====] > ... > > * Optional Entry > I did consider this, or setting Invoice in italics as an alternative. But in my opinion this solution clutters the dialog a bit more. Also, if we do this for one entry, shouldn't we be doing this for all optional fields, at least in this dialog, but maybe even in all dialogs ?
> But a tooltip is good too. > > > The Invoice/Bill to assign this payment to. Note that is field is > > optional. If you leave it blank, GnuCash will automatically assign the > > payment to the first unpaid invoice/bill for this customer/vendor. > > Can't you make the tooltip dependent on the underlying type? The labels > change, why not the tooltip too based on the underlying one? > Yes, I can. But that would require changes to the code, where my proposal only affected the glade file. This is pure laziness on my side, I admit... I'll see if I can find some time later this week to do it properly. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel