QIF Import created spurious accounts

Ian Lewis ianmlewis at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 09:05:44 EST 2008


2008/1/3, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>
> "Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >     I'd argue that it SHOULD use the "Default New Account Currency"
> >     and NOT the locale currency.  So in that respect I think the current
> >     behavior is correct.
> >
> > Really? I suppose which currency it chooses as a default is rather
> arbitrary
> > but the logic that it should use the default new account currency seems
> > misplaced if the currency is not used just for accounts created on
> import.
>
> Well, I'd argue this because "default new-account currency" and
> "default new-transaction currency" should be the same...  And
> using this currency makes it easier for a user of gnucash to
> change that currency on the fly.  They only need to change a
> preference, rather than changing their locale and restarting
> gnucash.
>
> Ideally, eventually, this setting should move to a data file property.
> But that's something for another day.
>

Man, you're making an already simple patch even simpler ;) The patch I
submitted to bug #504007 changes it to be the locale currency. I'll remove
that part of the change and resubmit the patch.

Ian


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