Re: [orca-list] GNU Cash, Anyone?

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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Yeah, that's about my conclusion too.  It started out at initial setup
but I couldn't get past the empty panels which were supposed to be
lists I think - account and transaction lists.  I seemed to import a
.qif file with reasonable success but couldn't make any use of the
data after being imported.  That's too bad too because I was looking
forward to using something like this.  I guess I'm religated to using
a spreadsheet to track my checkbook and things.  I think Open Office
Calc is up to the task.

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 06:55:18AM -0800, Tom Masterson wrote:
> I have looked at it in the past -- about a year ago or so -- and found it 
> pretty much unusable.
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
>> Anyone else try this program in the past or present?  I wonder if it 
>> would be worth my while to persue the developers on this? I can hook up 
>> some debugging but probably won't be sure what exactly to look for.
>>
>> Steve Holmes wrote:
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>>> I thought I'd give a look to GNU Cash which according to the
>>> documentation is one powerful accounting package.  But I can't seem to
>>> navigate anywhere inside any of the accounts.  I was able to do the
>>> initial setup but I can't seem to view any sub acounts or
>>> transactions.  I even imported a .QIF file for kicks but again, the
>>> transactions were invisible to Orca.  Whenever I got into any of the
>>> panels where I had the trouble, pressing the numpad-Enter key would
>>> only say "Panel." I think there was supposed to be a list of items
>>> there but Orca doesn't think so.
>>>
>>> Has anyone out there had any experiences, good or bad with GNU Cash?
>>> I'm doing this on a Debian Lenny system with all current updates.
>>> Plus Orca and friends from SVN of 01/30/2009.
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