New account type

[Sam Liddicott]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> On Fri 18 October 13 08:23:59 Sam Liddicott wrote:
>
> <SNIP>.
> >
> > Proposal:
> >
> > What she would prefer is for the general ledger two have two transfer
> > columns and a single amount column (and no balance - which would be
> zero).
> >
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> Initial thought: How would you enter a several-way split transction via
> your
> proposal?
>

You couldn't/would have to use multiple lines after all.


> I'm not a dev, and have no idea about the implications of your proposal at
> a
> coding level, but I do know that internally, every GC transaction is a
> split -
> just a question of how many splits!
>
> From a practical point, which addresses the usability of GC, when I have a
> stack of data to enter into GC, I try to group the receipts by source
> account,
> so I'll do all checking account first, then credit card, then wallet, for
> example.  This certainly helps reduce the clicking into different accounts!
>


The ways of the end user are not always those of developers. I like it how
it is, but then I'm not the one who actually uses GC

Sam