Re: Patch for guide file ch_basics.xml

2010-10-14 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 14 October 2010, John Ralls wrote: On Oct 13, 2010, at 1:38 PM, jh wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:56 +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: @@ -827,17 +830,22 @@ This section talks about custom shortcuts. I am not 100% sure, but I don't think this is still possible with recent gnome

Re: Patch for guide file ch_basics.xml

2010-10-14 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 13 October 2010, jh wrote: Hi Geert, * Summarybar content. This is currently an option in the Accounting Period tab. I find it very confusing in there. The two options that can be set here have no relation to the accounting period whatsoever. So I propose to move this

RE: A Start for 2.4 Documentation

2010-10-14 Thread Thomas Bullock
Hi Juergen, getting tired of translating outdated stuff into german, I rewrote parts of chapters 1 and 2, to address the new databases, the CSV importer, filename issue, preferences and others. Even though this is in German now, it might be helpful to look at the chapter headings, outline

Re: r19319/Searching a volunteer, who can convert gncversion1 files in doc/examples

2010-10-14 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 16 September 2010, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hi, just by curiosity I tried to open some files in doc/examples, which were fresh renamed from *.xac to *.gnucash, but I couldn't open them, because they are in gncversion1. 1. Is anybody there, who still can open them - and

RE: A Start for 2.4 Documentation

2010-10-14 Thread Thomas Bullock
Juergen, Thanks for clarifying your effort and for answering my questions. 1. Does this mean you will translate your German into English? No it doesn't, at least at the moment. My priority is to produce a complete German version of the guide, since it seems to me, that there has never

Re: Patch for guide file ch_basics.xml

2010-10-14 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 14 October 2010, jh wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 12:11 +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: Really, I mentioned this because the location of these options struck me as rather unintuitive even while understanding the relationship. I don't have a good alternative though. So for now I'd

Price Editor vs Security Editor

2010-10-14 Thread Geert Janssens
GnuCash has both a price editor and a security editor. The distinction between these two is not so clear to me. I can see that the security editor doesn't allow to enter exchange rates between currencies. The price editor is currently required for that. On the other hand, you can use the price

Re: Price Editor vs Security Editor

2010-10-14 Thread John Ralls
On Oct 14, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: GnuCash has both a price editor and a security editor. The distinction between these two is not so clear to me. I can see that the security editor doesn't allow to enter exchange rates between currencies. The price editor is currently