Re: [post-1.6] i18n ambiguities

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 03 Jun 2001 22:18:59 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: The ambiguities usually are not a problem if the words are used in a phrase. But for the messages with single words we need to come up with a distinction between different meanings. E.g. instead of the string Transfer we would need

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-04 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:41:37 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Hi, I've been trying to install GnuCash off and on for at least two years. 1.5.97 is the first version that I have successfully installed. Congratulations are in order, I think. Here is a rundown of my impressions: Installation is

Re: Average Balance report borken WRT stocks/mutual funds

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 04 Jun 2001 15:47:18 +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: It appears that the average-balance report is fundamentally wrong-headed about balance displays for stock and mutual fund accounts. Basically, when the average-balance report converts to the report currency, a fixed price is

Re: [post-1.6] i18n ambiguities

2001-06-04 Thread Damian Ivereigh
On 03 Jun 2001 23:28:19 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On 03 Jun 2001 22:18:59 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: The ambiguities usually are not a problem if the words are used in a phrase. But for the messages with single words we need to come up with a distinction between different

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Anyway, Once the beast is up and running it works acceptably. I did notice that the initial new file wizard doesn't display any account types in its list, so I couldn't use it jumpstart my accounts tree. Is it supposed to work in this

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Okay I'll have a look at it with strace. Maybe it is stalling on something really stupid like name resolution. Right. It is blocking on opening and reading /dev/random. Perhaps an upgrade to Guile 1.4 will fix that. k

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 03 Jun 2001 23:53:48 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: 1.3.4, which came with my distribution. I'm not advised on the life cycle of Guile development. Is it prudent to upgrade? Guppi congratulates me on NOT having an ancient Guile when I run its configure script :) 1.3.4 should be fine.

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 03 Jun 2001 23:55:49 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Okay I'll have a look at it with strace. Maybe it is stalling on something really stupid like name resolution. Right. It is blocking on opening and reading /dev/random. Perhaps an

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-04 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:57:22PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On 03 Jun 2001 23:55:49 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Right. It is blocking on opening and reading /dev/random. Perhaps an upgrade to Guile 1.4 will fix that. Strange. This is guile reading from /dev/random? I traced it

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 04 Jun 2001 11:53:19 +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:57:22PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On 03 Jun 2001 23:55:49 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Right. It is blocking on opening and reading /dev/random. Perhaps an upgrade to Guile 1.4 will fix that.

GnuCash 1.5.98 is released.

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
1.5.98 - 04 June 2001 o second beta release o updated documentation (English Portuguese) o updated German and Portuguese translations o more work on sql backend o fixes for FreeBSD o bug fixes GnuCash 1.6 Release Schedule June 10

Re: doc problems

2001-06-04 Thread James LewisMoss
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:11:41 +1000, Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Robert On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 03:47:50 James LewisMoss wrote: I didn't want to go messing with this stuff not knowing how things were setup and planned, but here's the issues I see with the docs (I'm willing

tree-view turned ugly after upgrade to gtk-1.2.10

2001-06-04 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, the gtk tree view widget used to show some dotted lines to indicate the parent-child relation. However, after I upgraded from gtk-1.2.7 to gtk-1.2.10 those lines have completely disappeared! (See screenshot.) This happens in both the account tree

Re: tree-view turned ugly after upgrade to gtk-1.2.10

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 04 Jun 2001 11:23:22 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, the gtk tree view widget used to show some dotted lines to indicate the parent-child relation. However, after I upgraded from gtk-1.2.7 to gtk-1.2.10 those lines have completely

Entering transactions in double/multi-line view

2001-06-04 Thread Matthew Vanecek
Hi, all. This has been really bugging me, and I don't know if it's something I've been doing, or if it's a bug. I've got my style set to Auto Single. When I open a transaction, it appears with the main line, and then the various lines for the accounts the money is split between, and then a

Re: Entering transactions in double/multi-line view

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 04 Jun 2001 19:40:14 -0500, Matthew Vanecek wrote: Hi, all. This has been really bugging me, and I don't know if it's something I've been doing, or if it's a bug. I've got my style set to Auto Single. When I open a transaction, it appears with the main line, and then the various

Re: Entering transactions in double/multi-line view

2001-06-04 Thread Matthew Vanecek
On 04 Jun 2001 18:15:26 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On 04 Jun 2001 19:40:14 -0500, Matthew Vanecek wrote: Hi, all. This has been really bugging me, and I don't know if it's something I've been doing, or if it's a bug. I've got my style set to Auto Single. When I open a

migrating from 1.4 to 1.6

2001-06-04 Thread Matthew Vanecek
Are there, or will there be, docs on how to migrate from 1.4 to 1.6? My understanding is that the file format has changed quite a bit. Beyond a little blurb to that effect in the README, I didn't see anything relevant. Thanks, -- Matthew Vanecek perl -e 'print

Re: migrating from 1.4 to 1.6

2001-06-04 Thread Damian Ivereigh
I think you'll find it pretty painless. From what I can see, when you point 1.6 gnucash at a 1.4 file it will automatically convert it. However you will then need to do a save as to save actually save it again. You should also do a file checkup, (Accounts-Scrub-All accounts) to fixup any

date confusion

2001-06-04 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi, I just fixed an annoying and subtle bug in the iso8601 date string routines (these routines are only used by the sql backend). During the process, I noted that everything seems to set the date at midnight of that date. Would it bee too much to ask to change this so that the dates are all

Re: date confusion

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 05 Jun 2001 00:46:36 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: Hi, I just fixed an annoying and subtle bug in the iso8601 date string routines (these routines are only used by the sql backend). During the process, I noted that everything seems to set the date at midnight of that date. Would it

Re: migrating from 1.4 to 1.6

2001-06-04 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 04 Jun 2001 22:01:53 -0500, Matthew Vanecek wrote: Are there, or will there be, docs on how to migrate from 1.4 to 1.6? My understanding is that the file format has changed quite a bit. Beyond a little blurb to that effect in the README, I didn't see anything relevant. Old format files