I have put this into a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769256 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769256>
> On Jul 28, 2016, at 5:25 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > >> On Jul 27, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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. > > Alex, > > That would be great, thanks! > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
