[GNC] Transaction between stock account and non-default currency account looks OK from perspective of former, completely blank in latter, doesn't even ask for a conversion rate, doesn't allow setting one

[наб]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 08:31:39PM +0100, наб wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers, but what you're saying sounds to me like:
> (a) gnucash should allow this without trading accounts but doesn't, or
> (b) gnucash should have informed me that to support this transaction
>     I need to turn on trading accounts but it didn't,
> and both (a) and (b) sound like bugs to me. More likely (b).
> 
> I have, however, followed this, and entered the transaction as in
> preenter.png, which, after pressing Enter (and fixing up a 0.01zł imbalance),
> resulted in entered.png. Beside the precision loss, this looks correct.
(now attached :v)

> Some follow-up questions, then, if you'd be so kind:
> (c) can I turn trading accounts off now and wait until I do another
>     nonPLN/nonPLN trade to turn it on again to enter it,
>     or will this break gnucash?
That makes transactions to/from trading accounts Not Be Special
(i.e. can't set per-unit price and amount),
but it does seem to work around the split-brain.

Best,
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