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

[Adrien Monteleone]

I thought that was discussed, but delving into the bug threads and others linked therein, I see the issue a bit more clearly.

Certainly, I think the current underlying approach is the more sane one long term with a few kinks to be worked out.

I (sadly and apologetically) still haven’t worked out a way to test dev versions on MacOS without disrupting my normal installation, but I can test non-OS specific changes via VMs. (I can certainly build maint or other branches in Ubuntu) If anyone has any suggestions or tips for testing maint and other builds on the MacOS front *without disturbing my normal stable installation* , they are certainly appreciated.

I’m getting ready next week to work on my 2020 budgets, so now would be a good time to do some testing.

Let me know what types of things you’d like to see answers to and I’ll do what I can. (in a Linux version for now, as noted)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 2, 2020 w1d2, at 7:26 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2019-October/087700.html
> 
> Yes an unfortunate minor regression while fixing a severe bug, because until now I could not understand why the totals section included budget equity values.
> 
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 01:15, Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> I haven’t yet delved into my 2020 budget, but certainly, the lack of an overall total should be restored as it is critical to the budgeting process.
> 
> I consider this a regression of sorts. (in terms of reduced functionality, not necessarily, the return of a previously solved bug)
> 
> Was this an accident? Oversight? Intentional design?
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> > On Jan 2, 2020 w1d2, at 3:43 PM, 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