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

[Derek Atkins]

Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org> writes:

> This makes sense to me. I'm simply of the opinion that if there is a
> (non-bug) way to get an imbalanced transaction that I don't have to
> immediately fix, then I should be able to postpone fixing it if I should
> happen to click on it.

Agreed... As I said, there should be no automated way to generate
imbalanced transactions.

> For OFX import, this happens for any transaction for which you do not
> select an account for. I actually find it easier to import with
> imbalances then select the account later, because during import there
> are no typing accelerators whereas I've become somewhat proficient at
> using the typing accelerators. If the default was "Unspecified" as it is
> for QIF import though, I'd be happy.

Agreed.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150569

> For QIF import, I don't know exactly when I've seen this, but I'm sure I
> have once in a while. If I ever encounter one, I'll save the QIF and see
> what caused it (but I'm not going to submit the QIF and my XAC as is, of
> course).

If you do see it, please file a bug report and submit the QIF.  Feel
free to mange the qif so we don't see names/amounts/etc.

-derek
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