On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 9:00 AM, <gnucash-devel-requ...@gnucash.org> wrote:
> > From: "David T." <sunfis...@yahoo.com> > To: GnuCash-Devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:25:11 +0500 > Subject: New Account Dialog > Hello, > > In recent weeks, there have been a number of threads on the user list in > which users have had difficulties setting up accounts for equities and > mutual funds. These users have not been able to set the Security/Currency > to an appropriate value because the account type was not correctly set. > > I believe that the New Account dialog contributes to this problem by the > way it is set up. The sequence of fields in the dialog does not match the > required sequence of input; the user must correctly set the Account Type > field (located at the bottom of the dialog) *BEFORE* they can correctly set > the Security/currency field. > > Not only is this sequence confusing to new users, it is an annoyance for > experienced users as well, since the user must manually relocate to the > type field, set the type, and then manually relocate back to the currency > field to set it. This quickly gets burdensome. > > At the very least, I would suggest that it would be much clearer and > easier to all users to have the Account Type field placed immediately after > the Description field, and that it be changed to a drop down list. This > would make it clearer to new users and more efficient for others, without > entailing a great deal of change to the program. > > I can add a bug to bugzilla if it seems that this would be useful. > > David > > > > > David, > > I think that that's quite well explained in Chapter 8 of the guide, and > the new user's problems are largely down to not reading the documentation > before diving in. > > I agree with to your proposed change to the UI for 2.8, and it should be > as you say fairly simple, probably only a Glade change with no code. Please > do file a bug so that we remember to do it. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > I am currently doing some work that will change the Account dialog for other reasons. If everyone is in agreement, I can change the layout as David suggests in the course of that work. I would probably commit that to master in a few weeks. Regards, Alex _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
