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

[David Carlson]

On 1/4/2015 10:10 AM, John Morris wrote:
> 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
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I would not use the word correct as an adjective when describing
preferences.  All preferences should be correct.  The whole point of
preferences would be to provide alternatives that are also correct.

I have my own opinion about whether GnuCash should interrupt the user
and force him to find a correct account to use for a balancing entry on
the spot when he may be in a hurry to finish up before the football
game, and I happen to like the current implementation.  If there are
enough of you that liked the old way, and you make your opinions known,
perhaps the developers will consider making something similar to that a
preference.  There are some points, such as during a lengthy import, for
example, when there may be as many as hundreds of exceptions to resolve,
when that would become very unwieldy.

David C