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Intro

This is a ad-hoc list of what works and doesn't work in the g2 port of gnucash. The plan is to finish porting those parts of gnucash that have already been started (i.e. new windowing system, account tree, commodities tree, etc.), but not to port any additional features unless absolutely required. The clist/ctree widgets do still exist in gtk2 and can be used, even though they've been marked as deprecated and will disappear in a future release. Its important to get this release out the door and not stall it until all the deprecated functionality has been removed.

DONE

Help Financial Calculator Commodity Editor Price Editor Reconcile Transfer View Toolbar View Statusbar Properties Dialog QIF Import OFX Import HBCI Actions Export Accounts Stock Split Dialog

+----- | Can someone who comes across this note and wants to help please go | through 1.8.x and create a list of stuff missing from 2.0? +------------

General Notes

Resources

  • Porting applications to the GNOME 2.0 Platform -- http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/porting/

  • Introduction to GConf -- http://developer.gnome.org/feature/archive/gconf/gconf.html

  • General

    • Printing

      • Printing checks works.
      • Printing text reports works.
      • Printing pie/bar charts fails.

    • Open pages are no longer open after reopening file. - Account tree, register and report pages are restored. - Budget and business pages are not restored. - Trying to reopen a multi-column report spits lots of

      warning. Trying to edit that pages options crashes gnucash.

  • Register Core - mostly functional

    • doesn't remember custom check formats.
    • Edit > {Cut,Copy,Paste} not functioning on first invocation.

  • Reporting / Graphing [mostly functional]

    • Graphing working, with some known issue; see top of src/gnome-utils/gnc-html-graph-gog.c for more detail.
      • colors
      • axis-label string rotation
      • Known issue with height/width bug in libgtkhtml 3.3.2 (on FC3).
    • When rendering, progress bar always says "Rendering 'Untitled' report...".
      • warlord reports this was true in 1.8 as well.

  • Importing

    • HBCI - Transaction templates eventually need to be converted from a GTK_CLIST to a GTK_TREE_VIEW. Currently working as a GtkClist.

  • Budgeting

    • Budget Report
      • the default account selection isn't very reasonable, Inc & Exp would be better
      • sometimes negative numbers render on two lines in their table-cell
    • Budget GUI
      • default account filter doesn't take effect until options are opened, should take effect as soon as view is opened
      • it might be nice to disallow some of the more unusual recurrences
      • better if budget list dialog allowed double click to open
      • need help text
      • should displaying zero values be optional?
      • it'd be nice if there was a summary column at the far right
    • Budget Engine
      • Do budgets play nice with QSF?
      • Still a lot of dead legacy code hanging around

  • New Account Hierarchy - somewhat works

    • Simply invoking, even if cancelled, trashes current book state?
    • Sometimes crashes when loading account data.
    • 2006-01-02: do these problems still exist?
      • [jsled, 2006-01-03] yes...
        • After opening, mousing over the existing account-tree changes all my '$'s to 'USD'.
        • I'm unable to cancel this dialog.

  • Account Hierarchy Merge - BROKEN

    • Bad integration with Account Hierarchy druid
    • Static variables used for process/window state.
    • Misc errors with no apparent cause
      • (gnucash:27485): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_event: assertion `WIDGET_REALIZED_FOR_EVENT (widget, event)' failed
      • (gnucash:27485): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_event: assertion `WIDGET_REALIZED_FOR_EVENT (widget, event)' failed
    • Doesn't let you complete the conflict resolution process, thus you can never complete the druid.
      • (jsled) actually, it just doesn't display the 1-conflict -> 0-conflict transition in the UI correctly, but it does allow you to finish.
    • conflict-resolution process/display issues.

  • Backend

    • price_lookup awaits a solution - as a query instead of a backend operation.

  • Scheduled Transactions

    • Since Last Run dialog should be audited for menus and ledger capabilities.
      • e.g. The To-Create-Transaction read-only review ledger doesn't need any menus or editing functionality.
    • SX Editor
      • Template-register View > {Basic, Auto-Split} options have no effect
        • Note: they shouldn't have any effect, as they don't apply to General Ledgers. That means, however, they should either not appear or be disabled.
    • Open SX Editor, close it; open Register Preferences, change "Draw {horiz,vert} lines" => crash.

ENHANCEMENTS

  • New icons
    • Add account.
    • Register
    • Report
      • "Report options", especially, since it often confuses users.
  • In-place editing
    • Provide in-place editing where feasable. Eg. Editing the account code or the account name, but not being able to re-parent the account. (Maybe add DND support for this in long-term?)
  • Find
    • There's no way to edit/refine a search. [There's no way to do so in 1.8, either...]
  • Scheduled Transactions
    • Entering a value (e.g. '20.00') without entering an account or a memo for the first split causes everything else entered so far to be reset when tabbing to the second split.