I think the UI upgrades have been an unfortunate but necessary consequence of many Linux distributions deciding to kill GTK2 and all GTK2- based apps. If jralls or gjanssens haven't spent countless hours upgrading components then GnuCash would have been dropped from all major distributions.
Most UI issues *can* be tweaked via CSS -- as everything here is opensource, users are encouraged to dive in and amend to their liking. Finally the list of issues bein long; apart from the GTK3 preferences I believe most of the "new" known issues in 3.x were also present, but undocumented in 2.x. On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 20:10, Christoph R <subscriptions+lis...@rohland.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using gnucash since 2004 for multiple accounts and have my whole > personal history since then in one file. I am running gnucash on MacOs in > German which is somewhat special and the only dev for MacOs is John. Thanks > to him for all the work putting he is putting in! I was a pretty happy user > up until 3.0. > > But with the 3.x series there are more problems than I am used to and > progress is very slow. The only version working for me so far is 3.5, which > is my production version for now. Versions before crashed or failed on > important operations (like the csv importer, which is the main reason I am > using 3.x). 3.6 apparently has a stray ifdef on MacOs which makes the > program always fall back to English. So I am back to 3.5. > > And the release cycle is pretty long. So even when bugs are fixed it takes > a lot of time to get them in a stable build. > > As much as I am proponent of using the latest software versions: with > gnucash 3.x I cannot wholeheartedly > recommend it. The good thing though is that you can try and go back. The > latest 2.x version reads 3.x files. And switching between 3.x versions back > and forth works too. > > Cheers, > Christoph > > > Am 21.07.2019 um 19:31 schrieb scotts <ssoderl...@shaw.ca>: > > > > I have been using Gnucash for about 3 years now, and for the most part > > enjoying the experience! I use it for my personal finances (bank > accounts, > > credit cards, investments, etc). I am also the treasurer of a golf club > > association and am considering moving their accounting over to Gnucash. > > > > I am currently using Windows version 2.6.21. Of course at the moment, the > > most current stable release is version 3.6. My only hesitation in > upgrading > > is what seems to me to be a very long list of "known issues" with the > > release. > > > > I'm looking for other opinions. In my experience, version 2.6.21 seems to > > pretty much work as advertised. No crashes, runs quickly enough on my > > computer, all the functions I've tried seem to work fine. Normally I > would > > upgrade any software to the latest release, hopefully taking advantage of > > bug fixes and new features. But when I see the long list of issues, I > > hesitate. > > > > Would appreciate any comments from others. Am I being overly paranoid? > > Thanks a lot! > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from: > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
