sample release notice

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
This is a *sample* release notice, posted for comments feedback. Gnucash 1.6.0 is *not* released :) What is missing? What need to be changed? thanks, dave The GnuCash Development Team proudly announces the release of GnuCash 1.6.0. Thanks go to all the testers and bug reporters who made

Re: date confusion

2001-06-05 Thread Rob Walker
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:46:36 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) said: Linas It being so close to 1.6, I decided its unwise to hack in such Linas a change without consulting anyone. What's the opinion out Linas there? Is it a bad idea to make this change now, or is it Linas better

Re: sample release notice

2001-06-05 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:25:58PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: + Persistant reports (reports are saved between sessions) That's persistent :) + Account hierarchy creation wizard Is it a wizard or a druid? The manual specifically says it's a druid, but it announces itself as a wizard.

Re: sample release notice

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 05 Jun 2001 10:05:14 +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:25:58PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: + Persistant reports (reports are saved between sessions) That's persistent :) whoops :) + Account hierarchy creation wizard Is it a wizard or a druid? The

RE: sample release notice

2001-06-05 Thread Phillip Shelton
Having just looked up these two words in my dictionary, new users will think that it is a wizard, for it does magic and creates accounts, instead of being only a priest or minister in the art of account keeping. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

HTML Export problem in 1.5.98

2001-06-05 Thread Damian Ivereigh
I don't know if this a problem with gnucash or with gtkHTML (is that what is being used?). Anyway when exporting HTML from the report, the resulting HTML does not have any of the table cells right aligned. This looks pretty yuck when you're displaying figures! Can anyone else reproduce this? I

Re: HTML Export problem in 1.5.98

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 05 Jun 2001 17:35:08 +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote: I don't know if this a problem with gnucash or with gtkHTML (is that what is being used?). Anyway when exporting HTML from the report, the resulting HTML does not have any of the table cells right aligned. This looks pretty yuck when

Re: HTML Export problem in 1.5.98

2001-06-05 Thread Damian Ivereigh
On 05 Jun 2001 00:42:25 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On 05 Jun 2001 17:35:08 +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote: I don't know if this a problem with gnucash or with gtkHTML (is that what is being used?). Anyway when exporting HTML from the report, the resulting HTML does not have any of the

Re: HTML Export problem in 1.5.98

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 05 Jun 2001 17:55:43 +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote: On 05 Jun 2001 00:42:25 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On 05 Jun 2001 17:35:08 +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote: I don't know if this a problem with gnucash or with gtkHTML (is that what is being used?). Anyway when exporting HTML from

Re: HTML Export problem in 1.5.98

2001-06-05 Thread Damian Ivereigh
On 05 Jun 2001 00:57:40 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On 05 Jun 2001 17:55:43 +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote: On 05 Jun 2001 00:42:25 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On 05 Jun 2001 17:35:08 +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote: I don't know if this a problem with gnucash or with gtkHTML (is that

gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-05 Thread Leach, Chris J (Oakton)
OK I've got a brand new gnucash working I've created some recommended accounts via the wizard and now I'm importing a load of qif files the selection proccess requires me to enter each file one at a time. Not only that but each selection starts from the current directory not in the directory I

Re: sample release notice

2001-06-05 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:20:15PM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote: Having just looked up these two words in my dictionary, new users will think that it is a wizard, for it does magic and creates accounts, instead of being only a priest or minister in the art of account keeping. Right, but

Re: Strange DVD-RAM problem

2001-06-05 Thread Rainer Koenig
On 0, Alan Orndorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, For a while now I've been saving my register file on a DVD-RAM drive. Any app other than Gnucash can write directly to the DVD-RAM drive but for Gnucash, I first have to write the register to the hard disk and then move it back to

Updates to README and configure.in

2001-06-05 Thread James LewisMoss
Here's some changes to the top level README. If no one has objections to them I'll check them in. Thought I'd ask here just to make sure. Index: README === RCS file: /home/cvs/cvsroot/gnucash/README,v retrieving revision 1.163

Re: Updates to README and configure.in

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 05 Jun 2001 16:54:03 -0400, James LewisMoss wrote: Here's some changes to the top level README. If no one has objections to them I'll check them in. Thought I'd ask here just to make sure. Looks good to me. gnome-libs: version 1.0.40 or higher should work. These libraries

sample release notice, 2nd pass

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
Thanks for all the feedback regarding the draft release notice. The second draft is attached. dave The GnuCash Development Team proudly announces the release of GnuCash 1.6.0. GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI allows you to enter and track bank accounts,

Re: gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-05 Thread Kevin Finn
Leach, Chris J (Oakton) wrote: It would be nice if moving parent moved the subtree. It would be nicer if the tree was presented and you could drag and drop subtrees It's been a while since I've imported from QIF, but I agree that it would be nice to be able to drag-and-drop account in

RE: sample release notice

2001-06-05 Thread Phillip Shelton
I am not saying not to use it, I just thought it would be fun to know the dictionary meaning. -Original Message- ... Right, but wizard is a Microsoft term. That's why the GNOME people picked druid for their equivalent. I think we should use druid everywhere. b.g.

RE: compiling gnucash-1.5.98 on Solaris 8

2001-06-05 Thread Leach, Chris J (Oakton)
I dont seem to have made my point clear. I can compile and run gnucash under solaris 8 with sun gnome 1.4 early access. However I had to hack the configure and doc-tools/Makefile to successfully configure and then compile gnucash. configure.in need some changes to allow looking for the

Re: Strange DVD-RAM problem

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Orndorff
Rainer Koenig wrote: On 0, Alan Orndorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, For a while now I've been saving my register file on a DVD-RAM drive. Any app other than Gnucash can write directly to the DVD-RAM drive but for Gnucash, I first have to write the register to the hard

Enter key does the wrong thing in Account Edit Dialog

2001-06-05 Thread Ben Stanley
Package: Account edit dialog Version: 2001-06-04 CVS Pressing the Enter key in the account name field does not operate the default dialog button. Instead it inserts an invisible character in the account name field. This problem needs to be checked in all fields of all dialogs it has been

GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-05 Thread Ben Stanley
Hi, I recently tried to use a glib compiled with --enable-mem-check to debug gnucash, but instead ran into a 'block freed x times' message (from gtkcalendar.c). The number x was an incredibly large number, suggesting that 1. The pointer being freed had never been allocated or 2. The