[moneydance] New to Moneydance

[Scott Kirkpatrick]

Patrick,

Let me tell you a little secret I found in the Ubuntu forums. Alacarte
or whatever they are now calling the menu editor is there. The easiest
way to edit the menu is to right-click on the Applications menu and
select Edit Menus. It's been there since at least Dapper and I agree,
it's not the most intuitive thing to find.


Scott


Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> Leo Coomans wrote:
>   
>> I'm new to Moneydance.
>> I have a Ubuntu system for about a week now.
>> Downloaded the trial version of MD and installed it as root.
>> I tried the program as a common user on the system and it fits my needs, but
>> I can't save any record, nor can I remove the program in any way. The
>> program also doesn't show up in the Program task bar.
>> Is there a problem with the trial-version ?
>> Did I do something wrong on installation?
>>     
>
> Leo,
>
> Nope, you didn't do anything wrong.  I'll try not to get too technical 
> with the reasons of why, but basically it deals with Moneydance being a 
> generic installer and not a Ubuntu specific installer.  As a result, it 
> won't appear in the add/remove programs, nor will it automatically 
> create menu entries for the program.
>
> To uninstall moneydance you'll want to use the uninstall program that 
> ships with Moneydance.  On my system, where I installed moneydance into 
> /opt/moneydance, I would run "sudo /opt/moneydance/uninstall" to 
> uninstall the program.
>
> If you want to launch the program from your menu structure you'll need 
> to use a menu editor, which on my version of Ubuntu Edgy (October 2006), 
> is not the most direct thing to find.  The program is called "alacarte" 
> (get it, it lets you select particular things from a menu).  It may not 
> be installed by default on your system - and as near as I can tell it's 
> not available from the Applications->Add/Remove programs dialog.  Here's 
> what you'll want to do.  Open up a terminal 
> Applications->Accessories->Terminal.  Then install alacarte with the 
> command "sudo apt-get install alacarte".  The run alacarte by just 
> typing "alacarte".
>
> Alternatively, I've found it easier just to put launchers for most of my 
> applications on the gnome panel at the top of the screen.  You can 
> right-click on empty space in your panel and select "Add to Panel", then 
> click on "Custom Application Launcher" for name enter "Moneydance" for 
> command enter "Moneydance" or "/usr/local/bin/Moneydance" and click on 
> the icon and paste in the following string for the icon 
> "/opt/moneydance/.install4j/Moneydance.png"
>
> Yeah, it's not straightforward.
>
> Maybe in the future we can get some .desktop files shipped with 
> Moneydance for Linux and have it put the icon in /usr/share/icons or 
> something like that.
>
> Anyway, hope this helps.
>
> --Patrick
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