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

[David T.]

Personally, I don’t care one way or another. I imagine now that I am accustomed to how it works now, and I like not being interrupted every time a transaction doesn’t balance. My current method is: a) pay attention to the little “x”es in the transaction, which tell users that an open transaction is not yet balanced, and then b) periodically open the Imbalances account and fix up the transactions that show up there. Since I do a lot of importing of transactions, I have a lot of entries that I have to manually edit anyway; this way, the Imbalance account serves as a reminder to me to clean things up.

If a preference could be added without outrageous effort (by someone other than feeble-brained me), then I wouldn’t argue against it. Since I am not doing the programming anyway, I am happy to work with it as it is.

David

On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:13 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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