Progress toward Budget module

[Darin Willits]

I will try to have a look at these this weekend and see if I can't address 
some of these concerns.  Need to get in front of a computer where I can play 
with this stuff.

Cheers,

Darin


On August 10, 2004 10:56 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:48:10PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > I checked it out, and compiled it.
> >
> > Here are some initial impressions.  I'll look more closely later.
>
> Second look: more comments:
>
> 1) In New Budget Category setup, the period column says monthy:10, even
> though I selected the 1st of the month in previous window.
> 2) If there is some way to modify existing categories, I can't find it.
> Oh, apparently, that's what "open" does.  Clicking 'cancel' in "modify
> category" crashed gnucash.
> 3) Clicking "new category" opens a window titled "modify category".
> Clicking 'cancel' in "modify category" crashes gnucash.
> 4) Clicking "open" in "new category" window throws:
>
> (gnucash:3076): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkentry.c: line 3545
> (gtk_entry_set_text): assertion `text != NULL' failed
> Related Accouts: 0
>
>  (gnucash:3076): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
>  `GncTreeModelAccount' to `GtkTreeModelSort'
>
>   (gnucash:3076): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktreemodelsort.c: line 2016
>   (gtk_tree_model_sort_get_model): assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL_SORT
>   (tree_model)' failed
> 5) Clicking "ok" in "modify category" window also crashes gnucash.
> 6) Similar crashes in "modify category" window opened from "budget
> setup" tab.
>
> 7) Important: This seems like essential functionality: amounts I enter in
> "balance budget" tab don't show up in "track budget" planned column, or
> anywhere else.
>
> 8) [FIXED] Budgets remain alive even when budget workbench is closed and
> reopened.  They also retain previous settings.
> 9) "delete" budget does nothing.
>
> -chris
>
> > 1) It compiles!
> > 2) When I click on new budget the "new budget 'druid'" opens _behind_
> > the budget list.  I think it should be in front.
> > 3) In fact, it seems to be _permanently_ behind the budget list.
> > 4) In category setup window are "inflow" and "outflow" preferable terms
> > over traditional "income", "expense"?
> > 5) Is "total budget balance" really a budgetting category, or is it
> > really a budget _reporting_ category?
> > 6) Perhaps a newly created budget should automatically be opened for
> > editing.  After the budget was created it took me a sec to figure out
> > what the next thing to do was.
> > 7) The second time I clicked on budget workbench, the budget I created
> > was gone.  Maybe this is what was meant by "saving the budget" not
> > working.  I thought it meant saving to a file, across consecutive
> > executions of gnucash.
> > 8) When clicking on "new budget" the second time, to re-create what was
> > lost, gnucash crashed.  I restarted.
> > 9) When entering budget amounts, it would be nice to navigate from cell
> > to cell with the keyboard arrow keys instead of only with the mouse.
> > 10)  There's probably eventually a place for enhancement with feature
> > like "distribute $X evenly over all budget periods for this account".
> > 11) In "budget balance" tab of budget workbench, I see "total budget
> > balance". It makes sense here, but if I hadn't kept it in "category
> > setup" would it not appear here?
> > 12) Track budget:  doesn't this rightly belong as a report, and not part
> > of the budget workbench?  Anyway, period planned column seems to only
> > show zero.
> > 13) Date format on Balance budget tab columns is d/m/y, while on track
> > budget, mm/dd/yy.   Very confusing.
>
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