Any Interest in Configurable Imbalance name

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-01-04, Donald Allen wrote:

>> I actually don't mind the Imbalance accounts. Every now and then I screw
>> something up and notice that the Imbalance account has a non-0 balance,
>> so I have to fix something.
>>
>> As long as the ability for accounts with an imbalanced transaction in
>> them, and finding those imbalanced transactions is easy, I'm happy. I
>> found the Imbalanced account a functional and obvious way to do this. I
>> do agree though that sometimes Gnucash seems a little too eager to
>> assign transactions into it (i.e.: When I'm still editing values in a
>> split and haven't finalized it yet... Though I think Gnucash assumes
>> that if I press "enter", it means I'm done...)
>
> Did you ever use v1.8.x? I'm trying to find out if you ever
> experienced the behavior some of us (Derek, Adam, me) are advocating
> returning to.

Didn't 1.8 create Orphan-* or Imbalance-* accounts too (perhaps just
the former)?  I'm almost sure I've had this (IMHO) problem since I
started using it.