Troubles with foreign currency account

[Derek Atkins]

Thomas Klausner <tk at giga.or.at> writes:

> I understand the manpower problem... I just wanted to report the
> problem here.  I filed
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408442

Thanks.  Fixed in trunk..  Waiting backport for 2.0.5.

> What I find confusing (see attached screenshot):
> There are two lines, "1 EUR = x TRL" and "1 TRL = x EUR"
> which seem to relate to the input fields on the left.
> (Yes, the "x" are literals, they are not replaced by numbers.)
> I think 2 changes would improve the situation:
> a) Replace x with the exchange rate as soon as the window
>    is opened, if the "exchange rate" field already contains a
>    number. This is what mostly confused me -- I usually just enter
>    a number and press ENTER or click OK, so I never saw the x
>    replaced with some real number -- I have to TAB off the field
>    for this to happen.
> b) Move the two lines "1 EUR = x TRL" and "1 TRL = x EUR" below
>    the two checkboxes -- I don't care if it's one or two lines,
>    as long as it doesn't look as much correlated to the two entry
>    boxes.

I agree with a.  I dont agree with b.  You should file a bug report
for a, because it IS a bug.

>> > . The prices added to the price editor automatically by entering
>> >   transactions are very very strange and usually wrong.
>> 
>> They are only strange/wrong if you enter the exchange rates
>> strangely/wrongly.
>
> I probably should have been more specific.
> Say I add a transaction from a EUR to a TRL account.
> Price editor pops up with a default price (it gets from where?)
> In this case, I transferred 200 EUR to the TRL account and didn't
> edit the suggested exchange rate of 1.85something.
> The value in the TRL is correct, 370 (rounded again, for whatever
> reason this time...).
> Then I open the price editor and see "0 + 20 / 37" (see autoprice.png).
> That's what I call a "weird" price :)

Please file a bug report on this, too.

> Cheers,
>  Thomas

-derek

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