Re: [Ledger-smb-users] [Ledger-smb-devel] Future of LedgerSMB: Ideas and RFC

2011-05-17 Thread Joshua Berkus
Chris, > Many of you may be frustrated at the pace of development of LedgerSMB > and the fact that 1.3 has not yet been released. Development may > appear to have slowed. Public discussions become less frequent... FWIW, this is normal for projects approaching their first Big Release. The answe

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Future of LedgerSMB: Ideas and RFC

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Adrian Levi wrote: > Is there a payrole function in the works, what would it cost me to > have one written? > > Watching progress in LSMB with interest. Well, payroll is a nightmare because of so many national and local requirements. I have the basics of a datab

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Future of LedgerSMB: Ideas and RFC

2011-05-17 Thread Adrian Levi
On 18 May 2011 06:53, Chris Travers wrote: > Hi all; > > Many of you may be frustrated at the pace of development of LedgerSMB > and the fact that 1.3 has not yet been released.  Development may > appear to have slowed. Public discussions become less frequent... I installed and tinkered with LSMB

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Forgetting to post printed/mailed invoices: add Print+Post button?

2011-05-17 Thread Luke
On Tue, 17 May 2011, ario wrote: > How about only raising a flag when you press a button that would make > you leave the transaction window? Onclick::AnnoyUser("Unposted, are you sure?"); for every link that appears with an updated but unposted transaction. > Like in MS Windows (W) bugging the

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Forgetting to post printed/mailed invoices: add Print+Post button?

2011-05-17 Thread Luke
I haven't considered this much, but this thought just occurred to me... I was thinking, in regards to your message below, "yeah, at least not with a web based interface." In a thick interface, you could retain state, and not *let* the user lose/leave the invoice, until he posts, suspends, or c

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Forgetting to post printed/mailed invoices: add Print+Post button?

2011-05-17 Thread david
ario wrote: > I am sure that what you propose would make me very nervous :) > > How about only raising a flag when you press a button that would make > you leave the transaction window? > > Like in MS Windows (W) bugging the user (U) with: > W: Are sure? (press 'NO' or 'Cancel') > U: 'Yes?' > W

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Future of LedgerSMB: Ideas and RFC

2011-05-17 Thread ario
I'm very happily using LSMB in its current version and state and will be grateful with any improvement or future version. Thanks for the great work! It is a really useful engine, as 'the fat controller' would say :) On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 13:53 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > Hi all; > > Many of y

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Forgetting to post printed/mailed invoices: add Print+Post button?

2011-05-17 Thread ario
I am sure that what you propose would make me very nervous :) How about only raising a flag when you press a button that would make you leave the transaction window? Like in MS Windows (W) bugging the user (U) with: W: Are sure? (press 'NO' or 'Cancel') U: 'Yes?' W: You are about to leave this wi

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Forgetting to post printed/mailed invoices: add Print+Post button?

2011-05-17 Thread david
I also forget to post sometimes because of a different human error. Regardless of check boxes or different buttons it would still be possible to forget to post, or forget to check the boxes for that matter. Perhaps the original screen could have a strong "NOT POSTED" flag which only disappears aft

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Future of LedgerSMB: Ideas and RFC

2011-05-17 Thread Lyle
On 17/05/2011 21:53, Chris Travers wrote: > I'd also like to encourage anyone who is interested in contributing to > start looking heavily at 1.3. This is a place where you can earn a > name in the CONTRIBUTORS file, or possibly even commit privileges. I started with the subversion copy, but reve

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] Forgetting to post printed/mailed invoices: add Print+Post button?

2011-05-17 Thread Erik Huelsmann
Hi Hugh,Chris, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Hugh Esco wrote: > My preference would be that print and email buttons be removed from the > interface, except when viewing a posted invoice, where I'd also like to > see a reverse transaction button for users with appropriate > permissions. Very n

[Ledger-smb-users] Future of LedgerSMB: Ideas and RFC

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all; Many of you may be frustrated at the pace of development of LedgerSMB and the fact that 1.3 has not yet been released. Development may appear to have slowed. Public discussions become less frequent... For the last few years, LedgerSMB has achieved significant growth. Some of that growth