[GNC] Printing Chart of Accounts WITHOUT balances

[Stan Brown]

On 2022-07-01 18:30, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> I remember this bug. I submitted it. As noted in the bug, I found problems with the option, but was informed that it was behaving as expected. I didn't agree, but never could determine how it actually was behaving in order to explain how it ought to behave instead. That's why I marked it NOTABUG.
> 
> As noted there, I found that certain selected balances disappeared, but not all of them. Perhaps someone could better describe the behavior.

Thanks for the historical information. David.


I know everyone coding GnuCash is a volunteer, but I really, really,
REALLY don't understand how anyone can call this "not a bug". It seems
crystal clear to me: The option on the Display tab says "Account
Balance", I remove the tick mark, and it still shows account balances.
How can anyone _possibly_ say that is not a bug? Whether it leaves all
account balances visible, or only some of them, it's still not doing
what the option says.

If the intent was to have unticking this option suppress only _some_
balances -- and I must say that I cannot conceive how that might be
useful -- there is still a bug because the GUI text does not describe
what the option is actually intended to so.

In software, "software performance doesn't match GUI options" is a
common class of bug. "Well, the software does what I intended for it to
do, so there's no bug even though the GUI doesn't describe the behavior
correctly" seems like merest sophistry to me.

That said, the programmers are going to do what they're going to do, so
I won't post on this point again.

Stan Brown

Tehachapi, CA, USA

https://BrownMath.com