Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation Redo

2018-09-16 Thread David Cousens
This paragraph is fairly instructive though. "When reading to do, people seek information that helps them to conquer their goals/tasks. Help systems that use reading to do are more likely to help users reach their goals (Varland and Svensson, 2006). However, people often do not learn how to

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation Redo

2018-09-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Seeing the changes from Gnome2 to Gnome3, particularly with respect to Nautilus, I suspect whomever is in charge of the Gnome HIG is very familiar with that research... Regards, Adrien > On Sep 16, 2018, at 10:11 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > So the IgNobel Prizes are out, and the “winner" of

[GNC-dev] Documentation Redo

2018-09-16 Thread John Ralls
So the IgNobel Prizes are out, and the “winner" of the literature prize is "Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation and "Excess Features in Consumer Products”, https://academic.oup.com/iwc/article/28/1/27/2363584 .

Re: [GNC-dev] Windows Build not working

2018-09-16 Thread John Ralls
All fixed. https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/gnucash-3.2-2018-09-16-git-3.2-275-g162605f50+.setup.exe runs correctly. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 16, 2018, at 11:37 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > That part I can replicate on MacOS, so I've fixed it. My Windows build > process is

[GNC-dev] There was an error parsing the file...

2018-09-16 Thread chris graves
I performed a git clone of the maint branch on July 31st, built and have been using it successfully since. Today I performed a git pull in the unmodified clone. Now using the freshly compiled gnucash, when opening a saved (via save as) copy of a previously okay gnucash file I get the error:

Re: [GNC-dev] README Overview; was: Gnome HIG

2018-09-16 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 16.09.18 um 18:55 schrieb Geert Janssens: > Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 19:31:26 CEST schreef David T. via gnucash- > devel: >> And if we’re going there, the main project includes numerous README files in >> gnucash/doc, all of which need similar treatment. README files for WIN32, >> HCBI and

Re: [GNC-dev] Windows Build not working

2018-09-16 Thread John Ralls
That part I can replicate on MacOS, so I've fixed it. My Windows build process is still broken (a guile compile problem with loading dlls) so I'm just going to push what I think will fix the binreloc problem on Windows and test tomorrow's nightly. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 16, 2018, at

Re: [GNC-dev] README Overview; was: Gnome HIG

2018-09-16 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 16, 2018, at 9:55 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 19:31:26 CEST schreef David T. via gnucash- > devel: >> And if we’re going there, the main project includes numerous README files in >> gnucash/doc, all of which need similar treatment. README files for

Re: [GNC-dev] Gnome HIG

2018-09-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zondag 16 september 2018 18:56:47 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > On Sep 16, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Geert Janssens > > wrote:> > > Op vrijdag 14 september 2018 21:37:58 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > >> Since John indicated there is not an effort to adhere to the current > >> Gnome > >> HIG, that

Re: [GNC-dev] Gnome HIG

2018-09-16 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 16, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op vrijdag 14 september 2018 21:37:58 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: >> Since John indicated there is not an effort to adhere to the current Gnome >> HIG, that statement should probably be removed. (as they don’t conform any >>

Re: [GNC-dev] README Overview; was: Gnome HIG

2018-09-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 19:31:26 CEST schreef David T. via gnucash- devel: > And if we’re going there, the main project includes numerous README files in > gnucash/doc, all of which need similar treatment. README files for WIN32, > HCBI and OFX should IMHO be removed altogether in favor of

Re: [GNC-dev] Gnome HIG

2018-09-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 14 september 2018 21:37:58 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > Since John indicated there is not an effort to adhere to the current Gnome > HIG, that statement should probably be removed. (as they don’t conform any > longer) > > But there are a few places where I think they can be

Re: [GNC-dev] Windows Build not working

2018-09-16 Thread Robert Fewell
OK, I have found the register date problem which is down to commit Make selection caching uniform across gnucash-sheet functions. more specificity if I comment out the addition of lines 402 and 403 the date cursor