Re: Getting 2.4 Released - Yes!

2010-10-20 Thread Derek Atkins
Phil Longstaff writes: > This strikes me as a *very* reasonable approach to take. I happen to use the > SQL backend for my daily use, but then again, I guess I'm supposed to eat my > own > dog food. Maybe for now, the Save As dialog should be modified to remove the > SQL backends, and an "E

Re: Bug 632594 created; review, approval, commit requested

2010-10-20 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Tom, On 2010-10-20, at 13:39, Thomas Bullock wrote: > […] > When I ran the first svn diff I found many changes needed to > gnucash-guide.xml. Cristian Marchi's reply let me find the way to correct > those. I ran another xmllint and found still 2 more xml errors. I fixed > those and thoug

Re: Bug 632594 created; review, approval, commit requested

2010-10-20 Thread Cristian Marchi
I've commited yesterday some patch to guide: - updated ch_basics.xml file - corrected the markup language in gnucash-guide.xml - new and updated images for GnuCash Preferences in guide Il 20/10/2010 19:39, Thomas Bullock ha scritto: Hi Geert and Yawar, On the other hand, your patch as seen

RE: Bug 632594 created; review, approval, commit requested

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Bullock
Hi Geert and Yawar, > > On the other hand, your patch as seen in bugzilla doesn't contain > modifications to gnucash-guide.xml, so I wonder how you interpreted > Yarar's > reply as if you are not allowed to change that file. Looking back on your discussion in this email and my current version of

RE: Bug 631789 update

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Bullock
Thanks. I have signed up for all the 26 items listed. A lot seem to be connected with scheduled transactions. I will look to see if it make sense to combine as many as possible into one. Very useful listing. Tom > -Original Message- > From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-ge...@tele

Re: GnuCash Help Manual .PDF

2010-10-20 Thread Phil Longstaff
Thanks. Unfortunately, this is a manual process which we couldn't easily borrow for future versions. In any case, the manual looks really good. Phil - I used to be a hypochondriac AND a kleptomaniac. So I took something for it. From: G. Cain To: P

Re: GnuCash Help Manual .PDF

2010-10-20 Thread Phil Longstaff
Thank you. No, what you have done doesn't break any laws or copyright restrictions as far as *I* know. There have been a couple of attempts to set up our build system to automatically generate a PDF file. I haven't been involved and haven't really followed the efforts. Can you describe the p

Re: Getting 2.4 Released - Yes!

2010-10-20 Thread Phil Longstaff
This strikes me as a *very* reasonable approach to take. I happen to use the SQL backend for my daily use, but then again, I guess I'm supposed to eat my own dog food. Maybe for now, the Save As dialog should be modified to remove the SQL backends, and an "Export to SQL" menu entry should be

Re: Bug 631789 update

2010-10-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote: > Geert, > > Thanks for these remarks. Since I am interested mainly in documentation > and its accuracy, your bringing bugs to the list are useful to me. I will > try to follow up on any that are listed, especially those that I see as > havi

Re: Getting 2.4 Released - Yes!

2010-10-20 Thread Graham Leggett
On 20 Oct 2010, at 12:17 AM, AshokR wrote: By this approach, it is a win-win for both users and developers. The users get the option to save in relational database formats to use third- party reporting tools and integrate with other applications. And the developers get to bake SQLite3 integ

RE: Bug 631789 update

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Bullock
Geert, Thanks for these remarks. Since I am interested mainly in documentation and its accuracy, your bringing bugs to the list are useful to me. I will try to follow up on any that are listed, especially those that I see as having a documentation impact. Tom > -Original Message- >

Re: Getting 2.4 Released - Yes!

2010-10-20 Thread AshokR
Here is one possible approach. Software applications allow users to save data in many formats. However, there is the notion of a 'native' format that will support all the features. Users may be given the option to save in other formats, with limited support. Taking the example of OpenOffice.org

Re: Bug 631789 update

2010-10-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote: > Geert, > > Thanks for pointing out that my remarks should be part of bug. Following > your recommendation, I have added an additional comment to that bug. > Thanks for the comments. > How does a bug update get added automatically to the de

Re: Wiki Page Formatting

2010-10-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote: > > Does the wiki foundation have guidelines for style sheet creation? Or is > this another application of CSS? > I didn't elaborate on this, but yes, the wiki uses plain CSS to style its pages. There are no strong guidelines. There is just a

Re: Bug 632594 created; review, approval, commit requested

2010-10-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote: > Yawar, > > I reviewed your links and have these questions. > > 1. Are you saying do not modify gnucash-guide.xml at this time? If so, is > that because Cristian is working on this module? You are free to modify gnucash-guide.xml. Especially

RE: Wiki Page Formatting

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Bullock
Geert, Thanks for pointing out the wiki functional guidelines: separation of structure and presentation. > This is not completely accurate in my opinion. Just like docbook, > wiki's are > designed to separate your document structure from your document > presentation. > The idea is that the wri

RE: Wiki Page Formatting

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Bullock
Yawar, Thanks for the great work-around!! It fixes not only the specific problem but is available for every other similar situation. Well done! > That said, and this is probably off-topic, but I find the Readability > bookmarklet[1] invaluable nowadays when browsing most article-style > web pa

Bug 631789 update

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Bullock
Geert, Thanks for pointing out that my remarks should be part of bug. Following your recommendation, I have added an additional comment to that bug. How does a bug update get added automatically to the developer's list? Or does it? Do changes to a bug discussion go only to those subscribing

RE: Bug 632594 created; review, approval, commit requested

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Bullock
Yawar, I reviewed your links and have these questions. 1. Are you saying do not modify gnucash-guide.xml at this time? If so, is that because Cristian is working on this module? If I don't modify it, then I just drop it from what my 'svn diff' found? I thought I had to correct all of 'xmll

Re: Summary bar description (was: Patch for guide file "ch_basics.xml")

2010-10-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Saturday 16 October 2010, Tom Bullock wrote: > Geert and Juergen, > > Earlier exchanges stated: > > > "Assets" is the sum of all accounts of types Bank, Cash, Asset, Stock, > > > Mutual Fund, Credit Card, Liability, A/Payable and A/Receivable, > > > obviously taking the proper sign into acco

Re: Wiki Page Formatting

2010-10-20 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Yawar Amin wrote: > Hi, > > On 2010-10-19, at 14:46, Thomas Bullock wrote: > > […] > > > > Here's the question: I have looked at Mediawiki > > (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting) for help. In the process > > I found the reference link which is very helpf