GnuCash Broke My Ledger :(

For the past year and a bit, I've been happily using GnuCash with Ledger and it had been a fantastic duo. Several days ago, I upgraded to GnuCash 2.2.3 and the combo doesn't work so well anymore. The problem stems from an internal change that adds a "Root Account" as the top level account in the tree. To say the two don't work together anymore might be a little harsh, but they at least don't work as well together as they used to. For example, this used to work to get a quick net worth:

$ ledger bal ^ass ^liab

The ^ass and ^liab bits are regular expressions that match all accounts that start with the letters ass and liab (assets and liabilities) respectively. This would result in a little chart showing my total assets minus my total liabilities, since "Assets" and "Liabilities" used to be top level accounts. Now with the new structure, these accounts are no longer roots. Instead they look like "Root Account:Assets" and "Root Account:Liabilites". Long story short, this new "Root Account" is the only top level account. To make matters worse, the bloody account name has a space in its name, and we all know how well spaces work on the command line...

Needless to say, the combination became a lot less useful with this update. I'm not sure whether to downgrade to GnuCash 2.0 or not. What a shame.