Can I change the behavior of automatically creating an Imbalance-USD account?

[John Morris]

On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:01 AM, jcard21 xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would much rather have gnc pop up an error message saying "You can't
>> enter this transaction" than to have it silently create an account for
>> me.
>> 
>> Obviously, I've checked the preferences menus and don't see an option
>> for that.  I wonder if there is a way to configure this
>> under-the-hood.
>> 
>> An alternative, and less preferred solution, would be for me to
>> designate to which account imbalance transactions should be recorded.
>> 
>> --wpd
> 
> I don't believe there is an option to change this behavior, nor should
> there be one.

  I wholeheartedly disagree. The fact that a few or the majority of users prefer one behavior does not mean the others should be ignored. The preferences gives developers the option to have the cake and eat it too. Those who prefer the current behavior are free to ignore such an option, but those of us who prefer the behavior from several GnuCash versions ago could be accommodated with little trouble on anyone's part.

John