[GNC] Frustration

[John Ralls]

> On Jun 6, 2021, at 11:22 PM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 7 Jun 2021, at 06:57, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What you want is very simple, just not in GnuCash which is possibly the only
>> package without it. The workaround changing accounts is just not worth the
>> grief.
>> 
>> Other software allows a category or class[ification] field on each
>> transaction. Normally the field is even auto-populated based on say a
>> payment by a tenant. One field is still not ideal because you might want
>> multiple classifications on one transaction like bigger accounting packages
>> offer (location, manager, supplier, owner, enterprise etc). The feature's
>> been requested fairly frequently for ages:
>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772
>> 
>> Best thing you can do is change to different software. I use an old
>> quickbooks version for my business to get that feature but you miss out on
>> the open access to the database and potential reporting that brings. Say
>> rental statements, performance per unit or property manager.
>> 
>> Maybe look at https://kmymoney.org/
> 
> 
> I’m using GnuCash 4.4 on iMac with Catalina, and have 6 files in my Most-Recently-Used (MRU) list.
> 
> Some time ago I reported a bug in the updating of the MRU which was fixed in the next release, and it was about this time that the 6-item MRU became available on my system.
> 
> I can’t find a Preferences setting for the number of files in the MRU, but I’m sure John Ralls could point a finger in the right direction.

Not sure what MRU has to do with categories.

The MRU list size preference isn't exposed in the GnuCash UI. Linux users can get to it with dconf-editor and macOS users via defaults, e.g.
  defaults write -app Gnucash /org/gnucash/history/maxfiles '6'
Microsoft Windows users can get to it via regedit, it will be somewhere under IIRC HKCU\Software\Gnucash.

Regards,
John Ralls