Bug 1035771 - Documentation for financial functions missing ... could somebody revive the original gcalctool one?
Summary: Documentation for financial functions missing ... could somebody revive the o...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-calculator
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-28 12:51 UTC by Matěj Cepl
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:51 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 19:27:42 UTC
Type: Bug


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Original DocBook version of the documentation (181.67 KB, application/xml)
2013-11-28 12:51 UTC, Matěj Cepl
no flags Details


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
GNOME Bugzilla 719484 0 None None None Never

Description Matěj Cepl 2013-11-28 12:51:12 UTC
Created attachment 830211 [details]
Original DocBook version of the documentation

Description of problem:
I, For One, Welcome Our New Dialog Boxes Overlords, but still without some more
explanation, I am lost. E.g., I have some understanding of the present and
future value, but still I haven't been able to compute with the Calculator even
simple =FV(0.05,10,0,1000) (using LibreOffice notation).

I have been surprised to find that the old gcalctool, although it had awful UI
had much better documentation, so it would be probably a good idea to revive it
back to Mallard form. The last change to the original documentation (as far as
I have been able to find out) was at
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-calculator/commit/?id=5ef567aa365313594a285bedbb9d5c3c5b030f2e
(and whole file was removed in 5d9395d0236ebb5a02c34fe24d20557dbd0d7486 with
rewrite to Mallard).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-calculator-3.8.2-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to calculate future value (e.g., what would be in LibreOffice =FV(0.05,10,0,1000) )
2.click on FV button
3.

Actual results:
there is no clear explanation anywhere what value should go where (e.g., where goes the starting value)

Expected results:
math is hard, so some kind of real documentation would be helpful. F1 doesn't give much help either

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 15:14:40 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 19:27:42 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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