word change requested for "to scrub"

Michael Fair michael@daclubhouse.net
Thu, 09 Aug 2001 16:36:05 -0700


Why not
"balance transactions"
"balance account"
"repair balances"

or some other kind of phrase that says this
thing will balance what is not balanced in
this account.

This also leads to some kind of feature request,
if it isn't already made, to have the glossary
definition of a menu item show up somewhere like
the status bar or a popup if you hover on a
menu item for ~three seconds or so.

-- Michael --

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Stimming" <stimming@tuhh.de>
To: <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 6:33 AM
Subject: word change requested for "to scrub"


> On IRC, Bill Gribble just threw light on the meaning of the GnuCash 
> operation "to scrub an account". I (and maybe others) thought of the 
> following (wrong) meaning, which also made it into the explanatory file 
> po/gnc-glossary.txt, "to delete an account". This is not correct. 
> Instead, the proper definition is
> 
> "scrub, to":
>   in the gnucash context, "to repair unbalanced transactions and orphan 
> splits in an account tree"
> 
> i.e.
> 
> <grib> "Scrub" looks for any transactions that have debits != credits, 
> or any splits that do not have accounts
> <grib> it adds balancing splits to any unbalanced transactions (pointing 
> to a special new account called "Unbalanced amounts" or something) and 
> puts any splits without accounts into another special account
> 
> However, since at least Ben and me were convinced of that other wrong 
> semantics, it seems necessary to find a better name for that operation 
> (as grib quickly suggested). Here's a list of proposals -- please, 
> native English speakers, pick your favorite word and give some comments.
> 
> - "to cleanup"
> - "to cleanse"
> - "clearance"
> - "to polish"
> - "to tidy"
> - "to scour"
> - "to scavenge"
> - "to deterge"
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
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