Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Uh, I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but GnuCash does (should) create a $HOME/.gnucash/ dir for its own storage, as well as leveraging the $HOME/.gconf/ storage we've talked about. Sorry -- but I don't understand. Yes, I see that GnuCash has created a directory named .gnucash

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Dan Widyono
What leverage? You imagine that any of these would be there in a Windows user's c:\documents and setting\userID (the Windows XP equivalent of $HOME/ ) for some other purpose than holding GnuCash data? I think I see what the problem might be and why hard to fix. This .gconf stuff isn't

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 8 August 2007 14:55, Dan Widyono wrote: What leverage? You imagine that any of these would be there in a Windows user's c:\documents and setting\userID (the Windows XP equivalent of $HOME/ ) for some other purpose than holding GnuCash data? I think I see what the problem might

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
[[Maybe a bit off-topic for this mailinglist, but I thought it could give some additional background]] ... and some are already. A fine example is The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org), an alternative image manipulation program for Photoshop. Whether it truly can replace Photoshop is a long

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2007, 12:16 -0400 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack: [snip] The implication is that the problem isn't FIXABLE (can't make GnuCash work completely properly for all legal Windows user account names) but that doesn't mean it should be no action. One possibility would be

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-08 Thread Josh Sled
Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: account name with an asterisk in it. Can anybody here identify the address of the team working on gnome for Windows because they should be made aware that there is a problem affecting their project. The implication is that the problem isn't

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Christian Stimming
Quoting Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to do a little more than simply report any problems I find from the point of view of an end user because with a little help, I could. Welcome to the developer list. Sounds very good. Here's the first one. I am of necessity testing

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Josh Sled wrote: The developer who started that work hasn't had a lot of time for GnuCash in the last few years. I really hope he does respond, but I don't feel out of order responding on his behalf. There are two approaches to book closing: Maybe stop right there. As soon as there appear

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Very interesting observation. Does the directory .gnucash get created on both account names? If it does, gnucash's handling of account names and paths is correctly implemented. In that case we'd have to forward the bugreport about the .gconf directory to the GConf project:

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Josh Sled
Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are two approaches to book closing: Maybe stop right there. As soon as there appear to be difficulties with the only approaches step back one level of the process and maybe more alternatives will appear. I wasn't really saying there were

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-07 Thread Josh Sled
Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have asked there whether this problem is top level directory name or anywhere in the path because if the former, there may be a (relatively) easy fix. GnuCash is the first open app for Windows that I have encountered so far that did NOT

Intro + a bug

2007-08-06 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
It was suggested that I join this list in addition to the users list. I am a retired senior systems analyst with a few decades experience in software for a financial. Well call that semi-retired as they sometimes tempt me back into the cypher mines for a little juicy consulting. At the moment

Re: Intro + a bug

2007-08-06 Thread Josh Sled
Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Meanwhile, I understand that close the books isn't working. If whoever is the developer on that portion wants a hand, please get in touch. The developer who started that work hasn't had a lot of time for GnuCash in the last few years. I really