On 5/29/2013 6:48 PM, David T. wrote: > John-- > > I pulled down 2.5.2 last night, and I see that the load time has improved. > But it still takes over 30 seconds to load my checking register. That's too > long. > > The colored tabs are still not displaying. (By this, I mean when one sets an > account color on the Edit Account page). > > My comments regarding the display of future transactions still stand. > > I have since noticed a change in transaction display. Previously, a > transaction note would only display when the Double-line register option was > selected. This note was hidden even when splits were displayed (as in > Transaction Journal or AutoSplit modes). Now, the transaction notes are > always displayed when splits are shown. I am happier not seeing this field, > unless I opt for Double Line view mode, but I can see where being able to see > this info is potentially better. > > The Withdrawal heading is now correct, and I see through some testing that > clicking the Date column apparently re-sorts the register to the previous > order. > > Cheers, > David > > On May 28, 2013, at 2:59 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > >> On May 28, 2013, at 2:53 PM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> I was trying out 2.5.1 on my Mac (Mountain Lion) and was prepared to report >>> that it was crashing when I tried closing and then re-opening my main >>> checking account register. Every time I did, I got a beach ball/hourglass, >>> and had to force quit the application. >>> >>> I thought the problem had to do with the fact that my Accounts were set to >>> use tab color designators (which are not displaying, BTW). But loading a >>> couple of other colored-tab accounts worked. That was when I remembered the >>> thread regarding SLOW loading. Sure enough, when I tried again to open my >>> account, and this time waited over two minutes (!!), my account opened in >>> the new register. So consider this another voice raised for needing this to >>> work faster. I truly thought I had crashed the software! >>> >>> Having loaded the new register, I see what folks have been saying about the >>> screen flag for future transactions. Personally I think it does not work. >>> Users looking at the register see it naturally as a flow of time from the >>> top of the screen to the bottom, and having the blue horizontal line is >>> highly effective at indicating a transition from past to future. Having a >>> vertical bar might work, but is nowhere near as obvious. Furthermore, >>> embedding this bar two thirds of the way off to the right makes no sense to >>> me at all. At the very least, it should default to the left-most position. >>> I was able to move it to the left--by moving all the other fields to the >>> right, which was quite cumbersome. I think the old way would be clearer. Or >>> perhaps the entire transaction could have a different background color if >>> its in the future? >>> >>> I'll note that the correct heading is "Withdrawal", not "Withdrawl." >>> >>> Finally, the click-sortable columns is really neat, but I would like to see >>> it possible to have a "Click to restore the default sort order" button. I >>> did not see any way to return to this sort order once I had clicked on a >>> heading. This is especially frustrating since the tendency to re-sort a >>> column is great when one is simply trying to resize the columns. >>> >> Thanks for the report. I hope you mean 2.5.2, released today, rather than >> 2.5.1 >> from 3 weeks ago. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > David,
What OS are you using for your tests? In Windows I have seen colored tabs above the register window for a couple of years now, and now the colors also appear in the accounts window. Apparently your build does not have the missing entry points that the Windows build has. David C
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