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

[Derek Atkins]

John,

John Morris <johnjeff at editide.us> writes:

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

I would argue that it depends on the amount of work required to
implement and maintain both code branches.  Having more options means
more testing and debugging work for the developers, and if it's a
feature that 99% of the people don't use it really wont get well-tested.

It's not a question of ignoring "the others" (or the 1% in my made-up
statistics).  It's a cost/benefit analysis for the limited cycles the
developers have to do the work required.

The nice thing about open source is that anyone can help.  Patches are
always welcome (although not always accepted).  So someone who wants
this feature is certainly welcome to do the legwork to make it happen.

I don't think any of the developers have said "no, this is wrong"
(although I suppose I just came close to that a couple paragraphs ago).

Hope this helps,

> John

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-derek

PS: I sometimes get annoyed by the auto-imbalance feature and would
sometimes like the old behavior myself.

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