[GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

[Christopher Lam]

https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797551

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 21:45, Greg W <allrightname at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the most recent release this change was made:
>
> [gnc-budget-view.c] totals - 5 fundamental types
> previous showed income/expense/transfers/totals budget totals, of uncertain
> meaning. now shows income/expense/asset/liability/equity budget totals. The
> 5 lines also become sensitive to the global sign-reverse property.
>
> That change removed the "total" row from budgets making it very hard to
> ensure that budgets are balanced or that there are no unallocated funds.
> Example of the old behavior:
>
> Income: 100
> Expenses: 30
> Liabilities: 20
> Assets: 10
> Total: 40
>
> Using that total row I could tell there were 40 units that needed allocated
> somewhere. How can I accomplish this given the recent changes? If I make a
> change and accidentally allocate 1000 to Assets in the new version it just
> updates the assets total row and doesn't otherwise indicate the budget is
> out of balance.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
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