GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 782423
Help 10.2. Setting Preferences is outdated
Last modified: 2018-06-29 23:56:45 UTC
Start GnuCash, open Edit->Preferences and compare it with e.g. https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/set-prefs.html. You will see many differences which should be easy to fix: Open gnucash-docs/help/C/Help_ch_Customize.xml, search <sect1 id="set-prefs"> For each missing add <listitem> <para><guilabel>Name:</guilabel> Tooltip</para> </listitem> An easy way to find the location in gnucahs code repository is: make once and open po/gnucash.pot and search the name of the pref. Example:"Include _non-currency totals" delivers #: ../src/gnome-utils/gtkbuilder/dialog-preferences.glade.h:15 Search "Include _non-currency totals" in src/gnome-utils/gtkbuilder/dialog-preferences.glade and you will see a few lines below: <property name="tooltip_text" translatable="yes">If checked, non-currency commodities will be shown in the summary bar. If clear, only currencies will be shown.</property> Now copy the text between 'translatable="yes">' and '</property>' in above section of Help_ch_Customize.xml
Some of the related images could need an update, too. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Screenshots_and_Images for guidance.
PR 105 addresses these discrepancies. As I mentioned in the request, my computer (a Mac) uses a different look from the screenshots in the docs, so someone else will need to replace screenshots for Preferences:Business, Preferences:Register and Preferences:Scheduled Transactions.
Thanks, David! Unfortunately a few things changed in between: "Auto pay on posting" became renamed to "Process payments on posting" I replaced a few tooltips by the more precise descriptions from their gschema files and remember: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/3cdac65d49999a3b7845e22ac8eb66b824108aac#diff-25d902c24283ab8cfbac54dfa101ad31 Also the label changed here. I am not completely sure if there were more. For both sections new images are desired. BTW I replaced "Online Quotes" and unticked "include window decoration" while creating the screenshot. So the desktop theme does not matter much. What do you think?
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