`Balance' dialog box.. what is it for.

[Harry Putnam]

Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> writes:

> The double-entry-accounting constraint that all transactions sum to zero
> is a Good Thing.   Obviously, our UI and docs needs to polish it some
> more...

Well thanks for your patience and for teaching me something.  I never
really considered the transaction is always equal to zero in the sense
you show.  In fact, I'm not sure I see why that needs to be pointed
out constantly.  At least for simple usage.  That aspect could as well
be transparant to the user.

I guess for my use I will continue to check [x] let gnucash add a
balancing split.  Or will all those notated `unbalanced USD' things
cause me a problem down the line?