[GNC] Reconcile also opens Interest Payment box?

[John Ralls]

Larry,

Thanks for the offer, but I wouldn't want to turn our users into more product for survey monkey. Besides, I'm not looking for votes, I'm looking for reasons why removing the dialogs might be a bad thing. A single person with a persuasive reason would outweigh all of the "don't cares".

To your points: A Scheduled Transaction is an even better reminder and quick fill (aka autocomplete) in the register will fill in the last payment account too. What quickfill won't do is pre-populate the credit field with the reconciled balance.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jul 12, 2020, at 2:11 PM, Larry Long <llong47 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John, I almost always pay off entire credit card balances, so I rarely ever use the "interest charge" pop-up.However, I do use the "interest earned" pop-up associated with bank accounts.  
> I find it a convenient reminder for me to enter that figure before I begin checking-off transactions in the reconcile window.Similarly, I use (and appreciate) the "payment transaction" pop-up window associated with credit card accounts.  The fact that it remembers and prepopulates my usual source account for the payment is also a handy convenience for me.
> Could I do without these two features?  Certainly.  
> Do I find them helpful and time-saving for me?  Yes.Compelling reasons?  While I find them helpful, I can't say that I have any.
> If you want a survey of your users, I don't believe that this list is the best method.  
> I would suggest that you set up a free account on Survey Monkey, create your questions there and post a link on this list.  It will accumulate the results for you and is much less effort than trying to track responses here.  
> I'd be happy to create one for you based on what you asked below.  However, if you wanted to write your own questions, it might be better for you to do it.
> Meanwhile, a huge "Thank You" to you and the entire team for all the effort that you folks put into the software--and in answering questions on this list!
> Regards,Larry Long
> 
> 
>> On Sunday, July 12, 2020, John Ralls 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
> 
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