[GNC] Reconcile also opens Interest Payment box?

[David Carlson]

While I do not use those features  myself,  if there are some who do, I
would say to keep them.  If not....

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 11:41 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Frank and I have both opined on
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797854 that the whole interest
> payment as part of reconciling is stupid. I want to add to that opinion
> that so is the payment transfer that optionally pops up when one finishes
> reconciling a credit card account. It's a lot of program complexity that
> relieves the user of very little work indeed: Those interest and payment
> transactions can just as easily--maybe more easily--be created in the
> register before and after reconciling, and in the case of interest they're
> an obvious candidate for a scheduled transaction.
>
> But that's a UI change and UI changes tend to generate heated
> disagreement. I want to get that out of the way up front: Who here objects
> to removing the interest and payment transfer automatic popups and the
> interest payment button on the reconcile info dialog, and what compelling
> reason do you have for objecting?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> > On Jul 10, 2020, at 6:59 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Jean,
> >
> > I filed bug: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797854 for the
> issue with the global preference not being honored.
> >
> > And bug: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797855 for the button
> issue on the two dialogs.
> >
> > Feel free to combine them if you like. I wasn't sure of developers'
> intent with the global preference, so I filed them separately.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > On 7/10/20 5:52 PM, Jean Laroche wrote:
> >> If you open a bug about it, I can try to fix that (move things to the
> right place etc). At the very least, the global option should be either
> fixed, or removed.
> >> Jean
> >> On 7/10/20 3:35 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> >>> For consistency, that very wide button should probably either be
> changed to a checkbox, then moved or copied to the Account Edit page as a
> per-account preference. (it could remain in the dialog for discoverability
> I suppose, which is what I mean by 'copied') One could change it in either
> place, but ideally, it should be in one place.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure a global preference (especially one that is ignored) is
> necessary if each account can be set separately.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Adrien
> >>>
> >>> On 7/10/20 5:16 PM, lj wrote:
> >>>> I figured it out. Duh.
> >>>>
> >>>> There is a button on the Reconcile dialog that says "Enter Interest
> Payment". In addition to letting you enter an interest payment, clicking
> that button sets a per-account flag to always prompt for an interest
> payment when you reconcile.
> >>>>
> >>>> On the Interest Payment dialog, there is a button "No Auto Interest
> Payments for this Account". (It's very wide, and I didn't realize it was a
> button.) That cancels the dialog, and also clears the per-account flag so
> GnuCash will no longer prompt for interest payment when you reconcile.
> >>>>
> >>>> And the global preference Register, Reconciling, Automatic interest
> transfer? It does NOTHING at all. It sets a preference flag which is never
> used. It's supposed to be the default for accounts without the
> auto-interest-payment flag, but it doesn't work. Note that in
> libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp, the function
> xaccAccountGetAutoInterestXfer() ignores its default_value argument.
> >>>
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