QIF Import created spurious accounts

[Ian Lewis]

New patch attached to bug #504007

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504007

2008/1/3, Ian Lewis <ianmlewis at gmail.com>:
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> 2008/1/3, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
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> > "Ian Lewis" <ianmlewis at gmail.com> writes:
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> > >     I'd argue that it SHOULD use the "Default New Account Currency"
> > >     and NOT the locale currency.  So in that respect I think the
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> > >     behavior is correct.
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Ideally, eventually, this setting should move to a data file property.
> > But that's something for another day.
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> 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.
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> Ian