Package: gnucash Version: 1.9.6-3 Severity: normal I just started gnucash to do some routine accounting and was presented with what appears to be the Gnome 2 version. Good work there, nice to see a slicker interface to my financial software.
However, the upgrade procedure is less than could be hoped for. My
mother uses Gnucash for her accounting, and this update will leave her
utterly lost if it is released as is. (not to pick on Mom in particular;
there are lots of users like her, but most of them don't use me as a
support line :-) )
I see two main problems:
(1) gnucash forgot its default file settings; i.,e., it did not
automatically open the accounts file that I last had open in
the Gnome 1 version. You might consider this a small thing,
but I guarantee I'll get a "support call" about this -- most
likely a frantic terrified one asking why her financial data
has been "lost".
(2) gnucash presented me with a window called
"GnuCash XML Import Druid", which Mom will consider either
gibberish or some sort of mistletoe-worshipping international
trade organisation :-). This window contained a lot of text
that is probably far more technical than it needs to be. Off
the top of my head, I suggest something like "data upgrade"
for the title and an explanation that old formats did not
properly handle some "international" characters, so you need
to tell the computer which option to pick, with the technical
details in the last paragraph if necessary. I may not be the
best person to design better text, though.
Maybe an even bigger problem with this dialog is that I
couldn't get out of it the first time I went through: I assigned
the single word it asked me to assign, and the Forward button
stayed insensitive (grayed out). I was able to guess that
hitting Backward, then Forward, would "magically" fix the
problem.
This may be less of an issue than I first thought if it only
appears when non-8bit characters are present. I appear to
have gotten it by accounting for a purchase at Bon Marche
and cleverly inserting the accent on the "e".
Daniel
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Versions of packages gnucash depends on:
ii g-wrap 1.9.6-3 scripting interface generator for
ii gnucash-common 1.9.6-3 A personal finance tracking progra
ii guile-1.6-libs 1.6.7-4 Main Guile libraries
ii guile-1.6-slib 1.6.7-4 Guile SLIB support
ii guile-g-wrap 1.9.6-3 scripting interface generator for
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.10-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.10-1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.10-1 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-2 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdate-manip-perl 5.44-2 a perl library for manipulating da
ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libffi4 4.1.0-4 Foreign Function Interface library
ii libfinance-quote-perl 1.11-0.1 Perl module for retrieving stock q
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgail-common 1.8.11-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgail17 1.8.11-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-3 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.12.1-3 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.1-2 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgnutls13 1.3.5-1.1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.2-1 library for common error values an
ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.1-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgsf-gnome-1-114 1.14.1-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.17-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkhtml3.8-15 3.10.1-1 HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii libguile-ltdl-1 1.6.7-4 Guile's patched version of libtool
ii libgwrap-runtime0 1.9.6-3 scripting interface generator for
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libltdl3 1.5.22-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii libofx2c2a 1:0.8.0-11 library to support Open Financial
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.1-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libqthreads-12 1.6.7-4 QuickThreads library for Guile
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libtasn1-2 1:0.2.17-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.24.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii psfontmgr 0.11.8-0.1 PostScript font manager -- part of
ii slib 3a3-1 Portable Scheme library
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 22 Configure TrueType and CID fonts f
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
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