Bring back the old register
The one in 2.5.2 (win32) is horribly slow, ugly, and has a few bad behaviors. It took me a few minutes to enter one transaction (my paycheck), which involves Alt+Tabbing back and forth from GnuCash to the browser to retrieve values. The value you're editing becomes inactive when you move to a different window, and if you start typing when you switch back to GnuCash it acts like a search rather than entering your amount. Also, math isn't calculated when you tab out of the field, which makes it tough to tell how much is remaining to split.
Rob Sharp
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I’m afraid this will not happen. The old register is a dead end as it’s based on libraries that have been deprecated for a while. If we stick to it, that would effectively mean we would have to maintain this extra code and keep it compatible with the rest of gtk. We don’t have enough man power to do so.
Let me also point out that 2.5.2 is a development release, not a stable one. As such the the new register in 2.5.2 is a work in progress, not the final version. Unfortunately 2.5.3 will not see many improvements.
Other than that I fully agree that the new register code is not ready yet for release. The base is there, but it needs a lot of tweaking and optimisation. I don’t think 2.6 will be released before this has seen some significant improvements.
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Rob Sharp
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Only after the fact did I notice that you can right-click an account to get it. In which case, the suggestion is to provide a setting to open the old style by default.