On Thursday 10 November 2016 10:08:52 Geert Janssens wrote: > On Wednesday 09 November 2016 20:57:58 Geert Janssens wrote: > > Bob, John, > > > > I don't know who chose to add a UTC option in the fancy date list or > > what it is supposed to mean. It was there when I took up fixing the > > reports already. > > > > However regarding the failure if no default is set, this is a bug in > > the option definition rather than in the reports. > > > > This option is defined in > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/app-utils/busines > > s-> prefs.scm#L122 > > > > One can set a default value for an option, which is currently #f for > > the dateformat option. I believe this default should be whatever we > > choose as default in the combobox in the gui instead. And I > > certainly > > think "Locale" would make more sense as default than "UTC". > > > > Regards, > > > > Geert > > I gave this some more thought this morning and would propose yet > another possible solution that I would like even better. > > I think the default should be to not use a fancy date at all, but > rather use whatever the user selected in the general preferences. > > That would need two changes: > * Add the choice of "No fancy date" in the combo box in the Business > preferences GUI and make that the default choice > > * The date format option should query the default for the normal date > option if "No fancy date" is selected or if there is no stored value. > > Just the rough idea. > > Geert
Oh, and Bob, this shouldn't block your chart resizing work. If you don't feel like implementing this that's just fine also :) Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel