Wm,
Wm via gnucash-devel writes:
>> On Linux at least those environment variables (not the ones which are merely
>> labels) are not created on installation. They can be and then GnuCash should
>> use the locations defined by them (I haven't verified this mainly because I
>> don't have the need
Wm via gnucash-devel writes:
> There are limited ways of approaching things if the other party won't
> listen.
>
> One can try the thoughtful approach.
>
> One can try being rude.
>
> If none of these work, what do you suggest?
>
> You're the person that is refusing to discuss what you have done
Wm via gnucash-devel writes:
> On 26/02/2019 08:28, David Cousens wrote:
>> Wm and other interested parties
>>
>> To help alleviate the confusion over where user configuration information is
>> located in V3.x cf v 2.6.x I have started adding some diagrams to illustrate
>> the changes in
On 28/02/2019 00:04, David Cousens wrote:
Wm
Diagrams are up https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations. The
wkiki markup is crude but works. I will try later to implement a scroll box
to better accommodate narrow width monitors and mobile devices. Geert
pointed out a few corrections
On 24/02/2019 17:29, Geert Janssens wrote:
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 16:23:24 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
On 24/02/2019 01:06, David Carlson wrote:
No, it is the name calling and digression from real subject matter.
I had to do the name calling because no-one was paying attention.
On 26/02/2019 08:28, David Cousens wrote:
Wm and other interested parties
To help alleviate the confusion over where user configuration information is
located in V3.x cf v 2.6.x I have started adding some diagrams to illustrate
the changes in locations that occurred which are hopefully a bit
On 26/02/2019 08:28, David Cousens wrote:
Wm and other interested parties
To help alleviate the confusion over where user configuration information is
located in V3.x cf v 2.6.x I have started adding some diagrams to illustrate
the changes in locations that occurred which are hopefully a bit
On 16/03/2019 08:18, Colin Law wrote:
I am taking from your lack of response as an indication of the fact
that, having looked back at my posts, you have determined that I did
not say anything that backs up your assertion. I now consider this
matter closed.
No, you should take my lack of
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 09:14, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 04:19, Wm via gnucash-devel
> wrote:
> >
> > On 24/02/2019 15:40, Colin Law wrote:
> > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 15:21, Wm via gnucash-devel
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> That is the point, dear, you may not have said a
On 24/02/2019 15:40, Colin Law wrote:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 15:21, Wm via gnucash-devel
wrote:
That is the point, dear, you may not have said a swearword but what you
are supporting is shameful.
Please don't call me dear. That is almost as bad as labelling me a
Trump supporter.
I don't
On 07/03/2019 23:42, David Cousens wrote:
I backup all user data including hidden directories on my hard disk to an
NAS so no matter where it is I have it copied. I do full backups monthly
with daily incrementals and usually retain them for 3 months these days. I
off load the backups onto USB
On 08/03/2019 14:49, Derek Atkins wrote:
Adrien Monteleone writes:
Separating preferences for reports is, I suspect, more useful to a
multi-user environment, which GnuCash does not support, but can be
useful for a single user who keeps books for multiple entities that
are all in the same
On 07/03/2019 20:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Derek,
I don’t disagree with your assessments of what certainly *can* (and maybe even,
more often than not) be specific to a book rather than a user. I was thinking
more along the lines of what someone *might* most likely want to carry over
Adrien Monteleone writes:
> Separating preferences for reports is, I suspect, more useful to a
> multi-user environment, which GnuCash does not support, but can be
> useful for a single user who keeps books for multiple entities that
> are all in the same jurisdiction and might well even use the
Wm,
I backup all user data including hidden directories on my hard disk to an
NAS so no matter where it is I have it copied. I do full backups monthly
with daily incrementals and usually retain them for 3 months these days. I
off load the backups onto USB for offsite storage as well now that
Derek,
I don’t disagree with your assessments of what certainly *can* (and maybe even,
more often than not) be specific to a book rather than a user. I was thinking
more along the lines of what someone *might* most likely want to carry over
across multiple books. For example, I keep books for
hi,
Adrien Monteleone writes:
> I’ll hazard a quick guess that everything not in the accounts tab is
> non-book specific.
I'm not sure I completely agree with this statement.
> At the very least, the display and general tabs are not.
Maybe..
> How you want figures to be displayed, which
Adrien,
I do not agree. While you are free in your choice for a private book,
which is not used for tax preparation, all other cases are limited by
governmental rules.
If you then as a border crosser have books for different countries
already the date and number formats differ for the same
I’ll hazard a quick guess that everything not in the accounts tab is non-book
specific.
At the very least, the display and general tabs are not.
How you want figures to be displayed, which sets of figures, which periods...
Content settings may be tied to the book, but formatting settings are
Hi,
Coming at this late...
Geert Janssens writes:
> For starters the user preference is an all or nothing thing, either all
> reports are in a book or in a common location. That's not very fine-grained.
> Perhaps you consider some reports common and some reports book-specific. This
> could
Wm
Diagrams are up https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations. The
wkiki markup is crude but works. I will try later to implement a scroll box
to better accommodate narrow width monitors and mobile devices. Geert
pointed out a few corrections re what are merely labels for locations and
Op woensdag 27 februari 2019 20:36:57 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
> On 24/02/2019 17:18, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > Op zondag 24 februari 2019 17:19:09 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
> >
> > Looks like you are now lying in public... (using your own conversation
> > style here).
> >
> >
On 24/02/2019 01:50, Chris Good wrote:
Chris,
If I save reports from GnuCash 3.4 on Linux Mint Tara (Ubuntu 18.04), the
reports are saved in
/home//.local/share/gnucash/saved-reports-2.8 and I have verified this
contains the report config which I saved.
yay
This is where I expected to find
On 25/02/2019 06:52, David Cousens wrote:
I admit freely I do not have a clear understanding of how the reports (and
much else inside GnuCash) do work in detail and I doubt if I am alone in
that apart from maybe the core development team.
You are expected to be the foil for those that do
On 24/02/2019 17:18, Geert Janssens wrote:
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 17:19:09 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
Looks like you are now lying in public... (using your own conversation style
here).
Nothing gets deleted by the migration so there can't be data loss.
We are talking well on the
Op dinsdag 26 februari 2019 14:18:42 CET schreef David Cousens:
> Hi Geert
>
> Thanks for the corrections. I'll make those that are labels and not
> environment variables black to indicate that. I've now indicated what are
> environment Variables but I'm hoping that doesn't imply they should
>
Hi Geert
Thanks for the corrections. I'll make those that are labels and not
environment variables black to indicate that. I've now indicated what are
environment Variables but I'm hoping that doesn't imply they should
necessarily be editable. I've put do not edit notes against the HOME
Op dinsdag 26 februari 2019 09:28:41 CET schreef David Cousens:
> Wm and other interested parties
>
> To help alleviate the confusion over where user configuration information is
> located in V3.x cf v 2.6.x I have started adding some diagrams to
> illustrate the changes in locations that
Wm and other interested parties
To help alleviate the confusion over where user configuration information is
located in V3.x cf v 2.6.x I have started adding some diagrams to illustrate
the changes in locations that occurred which are hopefully a bit easier to
understand than all that text.
Wm,
I admit freely I do not have a clear understanding of how the reports (and
much else inside GnuCash) do work in detail and I doubt if I am alone in
that apart from maybe the core development team.
GnuCash for whatever historical reasons is only sparsely documented which
increases the
On 24/02/2019 16:51, Geert Janssens wrote:
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 12:54:35 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
On 24/02/2019 02:25, David Cousens wrote:
Wm,
David, I appreciate your efforts as peacemaker, don't give up on all of
us yet, most of us are trying to be good, promise :)
If you
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 19:36:37 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
> On 24/02/2019 17:08, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > You do like misinterpreting other peoples words to your benefit...
>
> Only if necessary. I have never seen you like this before.
>
> > I never said it was a requirement to get
On 24/02/2019 17:08, Geert Janssens wrote:
You do like misinterpreting other peoples words to your benefit...
Only if necessary. I have never seen you like this before.
I never said it was a requirement to get gnc implemented on Windows. I said
gnucash chose to better integrate with each
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 16:23:24 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
> On 24/02/2019 01:06, David Carlson wrote:
> > No, it is the name calling and digression from real subject matter.
>
> I had to do the name calling because no-one was paying attention.
The more name calling you do the less
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 17:19:09 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
> On 24/02/2019 03:12, David Cousens wrote:
> > Wm
> >
> > You could have a startup script which copied a common user config file for
> > GnuCash from a backup or other central location to each users home
> > directory and then
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 14:50:27 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
> On 24/02/2019 08:44, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > Completely agree in today's context. There have been reasons in the past
> > it
> > was done as it is. If someone has spare time and epxerience I gladly
> > accept
> > patches to
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 12:54:35 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-devel:
> On 24/02/2019 02:25, David Cousens wrote:
> > Wm,
>
> David, I appreciate your efforts as peacemaker, don't give up on all of
> us yet, most of us are trying to be good, promise :)
>
> > If you draw a diagram from the
On 24/02/2019 03:12, David Cousens wrote:
Wm
You could have a startup script which copied a common user config file for
GnuCash from a backup or other central location to each users home directory
and then copied it back on exit.
On Linux the files would be those in the directories:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 at 15:21, Wm via gnucash-devel
wrote:
>
> That is the point, dear, you may not have said a swearword but what you
> are supporting is shameful.
Please don't call me dear. That is almost as bad as labelling me a
Trump supporter.
I don't understand what it is you think I am
On 24/02/2019 01:06, David Carlson wrote:
No, it is the name calling and digression from real subject matter.
I had to do the name calling because no-one was paying attention.
I'd prefer it if I was listened to the first time, promise.
--
Wm
___
On 24/02/2019 09:19, Colin Law wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 23:28, Wm via gnucash-devel
wrote:
...
You, Colin Law, seem to be the sort of person that votes for Trump
because you aren't bothered if a black women gets shot.
I fail to see what I have done to be so vilely abused as to be
On 24/02/2019 08:44, Geert Janssens wrote:
Yes, unfortunately this isn't very user friendly. I'm sure it can be improved.
Again it requires someone with time available and coding experience to
implement it.
Not really, 2. was better than 3. in this regard; let's just go back is
my
On 24/02/2019 08:44, Geert Janssens wrote:
Completely agree in today's context. There have been reasons in the past it
was done as it is. If someone has spare time and epxerience I gladly accept
patches to fix this technical debt.
There was nothing to fix in this regard in gnc 2.x
gnc 3.x
On 24/02/2019 10:45, David T. via gnucash-devel wrote:
Adrien,
Using configuration files as a mechanism for working around the significant
shortcomings of the reports ecosystem in Gnucash is tortured logic, at best. To
be clear, I understand the challenges facing the team-- as well as accept
On 24/02/2019 09:11, Geert Janssens wrote:
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 05:05:21 CET schreef David Cousens:
Adrien,
You beat me to it. I was about to also suggest making it a user preference
to be able to store the report configurations either with the book or as a
user location. Then the user
On 24/02/2019 04:05, David Cousens wrote:
Adrien,
You beat me to it. I was about to also suggest making it a user preference
to be able to store the report configurations either with the book or as a
user location. Then the user could choose what suits their circumstances and
configuration.
On 24/02/2019 03:44, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
One might want the same configuration in many respects and the same options on
various reports to be ’saved’ (since there is no other way to accomplish this
task) as user configured defaults to be useful across various books.
Some people have
On 24/02/2019 02:53, David T. via gnucash-devel wrote:
While I take exception to Wm's tone and language, I agree with his overall
assessment of the reports and configuration management.
I am happy to apologize to you if someone eventually takes notice. I
will do this by paying for a meal
On 24/02/2019 02:25, David Cousens wrote:
Wm,
David, I appreciate your efforts as peacemaker, don't give up on all of
us yet, most of us are trying to be good, promise :)
If you draw a diagram from the information in the wiki page
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
where
Adrien,
Using configuration files as a mechanism for working around the significant
shortcomings of the reports ecosystem in Gnucash is tortured logic, at best. To
be clear, I understand the challenges facing the team-- as well as accept that
I am unable to effect change in these areas.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 23:28, Wm via gnucash-devel
wrote:
> ...
> You, Colin Law, seem to be the sort of person that votes for Trump
> because you aren't bothered if a black women gets shot.
I fail to see what I have done to be so vilely abused as to be accused
of being a Trump supporter or
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 05:05:21 CET schreef David Cousens:
> Adrien,
>
> You beat me to it. I was about to also suggest making it a user preference
> to be able to store the report configurations either with the book or as a
> user location. Then the user could choose what suits their
Op zondag 24 februari 2019 03:53:52 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-devel:
> While I take exception to Wm's tone and language, I agree with his overall
> assessment of the reports and configuration management.
>
>
> Storing configuration data separately from the financial data and on a user
>
Adrien,
You beat me to it. I was about to also suggest making it a user preference
to be able to store the report configurations either with the book or as a
user location. Then the user could choose what suits their circumstances and
configuration.
David Cousens
-
David Cousens
--
Sent
One might want the same configuration in many respects and the same options on
various reports to be ’saved’ (since there is no other way to accomplish this
task) as user configured defaults to be useful across various books.
Some people have separate files for many entities and they shouldn’t
Wm
You could have a startup script which copied a common user config file for
GnuCash from a backup or other central location to each users home directory
and then copied it back on exit.
On Linux the files would be those in the directories:
/home//.local/share/gnucash (all user data)
While I take exception to Wm's tone and language, I agree with his overall
assessment of the reports and configuration management.
Storing configuration data separately from the financial data and on a user (as
opposed to a book) basis is questionable.
Storing saved reports separately from
Wm,
If you draw a diagram from the information in the wiki page
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
where the meta data and report data is stored becomes fairly obvious and is
fairly simple.
There was considerable discussion in the forums at the time the changes were
being
Message: 5
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 16:30:58 -0600 (CST)
From: David Cousens
To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux
Message-ID: <1550961058473-0.p...@n4.nabble.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Chris,
If I save reports from GnuCash 3.4 on Linu
No, it is the name calling and digression from real subject matter.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019, 6:26 PM Wm via gnucash-devel <
gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote:
> On 23/02/2019 23:09, David Carlson wrote:
> > Obviously this is not worth reading
>
> Why? it is all about people presuming placement of
On 23/02/2019 23:09, David Carlson wrote:
Obviously this is not worth reading
Why? it is all about people presuming placement of significant personal,
charitable and corporate assets and getting it wrong.
Why is that not worth reading?
___
On 23/02/2019 21:52, Colin Law wrote:
I cannot understand why you keep using this software since it is so
obviously horribly flawed and you have such a low opinion of the
developers.
I am sure you would be a much happier person if you used one of the
many alternatives that are conveniently
Obviously this is not worth reading
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 3:38 PM Wm via gnucash-devel <
gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote:
> On 05/06/2018 13:53, Chris Good wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hello, Chris
>
> > I'm working on my BackupGnuCash stand-alone app.
> > I have 2 questions today:
>
> read
>
On 23/02/2019 21:52, Colin Law wrote:
I cannot understand why you keep using this software since it is so
obviously horribly flawed and you have such a low opinion of the
developers.
I am sure you would be a much happier person if you used one of the
many alternatives that are conveniently
On 23/02/2019 22:30, David Cousens wrote:
Chris,
If I save reports from GnuCash 3.4 on Linux Mint Tara (Ubuntu 18.04), the
reports are saved in
/home//.local/share/gnucash/saved-reports-2.8 and I have verified this
contains the report config which I saved.
This is where I expected to find them
On 23/02/2019 21:52, Colin Law wrote:
I cannot understand why you keep using this software since it is so
obviously horribly flawed and you have such a low opinion of the
developers.
I am sure you would be a much happier person if you used one of the
many alternatives that are conveniently
On 10/02/2019 12:28, Geert Janssens wrote:
FTR this code is not written by me. I'm merely reading how it currently works.
good, because I am still angry at the plain stupidity regarding this
implementation
That aside, it will continue to work as long as the user uses a different name
when
Chris,
If I save reports from GnuCash 3.4 on Linux Mint Tara (Ubuntu 18.04), the
reports are saved in
/home//.local/share/gnucash/saved-reports-2.8 and I have verified this
contains the report config which I saved.
This is where I expected to find them based on the description in
On 08/02/2019 09:04, Chris Good wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Geert Janssens
Sent: Wednesday, 6 June 2018 12:10 AM
To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
Cc: Chris Good
Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux
Op dinsdag 5 juni 2018 14:53:44 CEST schreef Chris Good:
Hi,
I'm working on my
I cannot understand why you keep using this software since it is so
obviously horribly flawed and you have such a low opinion of the
developers.
I am sure you would be a much happier person if you used one of the
many alternatives that are conveniently available.
Surely anyone who keeps using it
On 05/06/2018 15:09, Geert Janssens wrote:
If you override XDG_DATA_HOME the files will be searched for and saved in
$XDG_DATA_HOME/gnucash/
However this can be overridden even with GNC_DATA_HOME. If that's set, gnucash
will search and save in
$GNC_DATA_HOME (which may or may not end in
On 05/06/2018 13:53, Chris Good wrote:
Hi,
Hello, Chris
I'm working on my BackupGnuCash stand-alone app.
I have 2 questions today:
read
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
and weep at how bad things have become
The last time i addressed this our idiots in charge were so
-Original Message-
From: Geert Janssens
Sent: Sunday, 10 February 2019 11:29 PM
To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
Cc: Chris Good
Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux
Op vrijdag 8 februari 2019 10:04:55 CET schreef Chris Good:
> Hi Geert,
>
> Thanks very much for the above in
Op vrijdag 8 februari 2019 10:04:55 CET schreef Chris Good:
> Hi Geert,
>
> Thanks very much for the above info.
> I'm afraid it has been quite a while since these emails but hopefully now I
> have a chance to follow up.
>
> I was surprised to learn about the part of
> [BOOK-WITH-EXTENSION].gcm
-Original Message-
From: Geert Janssens
Sent: Wednesday, 6 June 2018 12:10 AM
To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
Cc: Chris Good
Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux
Op dinsdag 5 juni 2018 14:53:44 CEST schreef Chris Good:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on my BackupGnuCash stand-
> On Jun 10, 2018, at 5:28 PM, Chris Good wrote:
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Geert Janssens
>> Sent: Sunday, 10 June 2018 8:16 PM
>> To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
>> Cc: Chris Good ; 'John Ralls'
>> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on
> -Original Message-
> From: Geert Janssens
> Sent: Sunday, 10 June 2018 8:16 PM
> To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
> Cc: Chris Good ; 'John Ralls'
> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux
>
> Op zondag 10 juni 2018 11:07:36 CEST schreef Chris Good:
>
Op zondag 10 juni 2018 11:07:36 CEST schreef Chris Good:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: John Ralls
> > Sent: Sunday, 10 June 2018 6:13 AM
> > To: Chris Good
> > Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux
> >
> -Original Message-
> From: John Ralls
> Sent: Sunday, 10 June 2018 6:13 AM
> To: Chris Good
> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux
>
>
>
> > On 9. Jun 2018, at 00:17, Chris Good wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> On 9. Jun 2018, at 00:17, Chris Good wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks very much for your help.
> A little more please...
>
> On my Ubuntu 16.04:
>
> sudo apt-get update -qq
> sudo apt-get build-dep -qq gnucash > /dev/null
> sudo apt-get install -qq git bash-completion cmake make swig
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 06:47:55 -0700
> From: John Ralls
> To: Chris Good
> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux
> Message-ID:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
> > On Jun 5, 2018, at 5:
Op dinsdag 5 juni 2018 14:53:44 CEST schreef Chris Good:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I'm working on my BackupGnuCash stand-alone app.
>
>
>
> I have 2 questions today:
>
>
>
> 1.
>
> I'm a little uncertain about where the saved reports and metadata files are
> in GnuCash 3.0 for Linux.
>
> I suspect
> On Jun 5, 2018, at 5:53 AM, Chris Good wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I'm working on my BackupGnuCash stand-alone app.
>
>
>
> I have 2 questions today:
>
>
>
> 1.
>
> I'm a little uncertain about where the saved reports and metadata files are
> in GnuCash 3.0 for Linux.
>
> I suspect
Hi,
I'm working on my BackupGnuCash stand-alone app.
I have 2 questions today:
1.
I'm a little uncertain about where the saved reports and metadata files are
in GnuCash 3.0 for Linux.
I suspect they are by default:
~/.local/share/gnucash/saved-reports-2.4
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