[Kmymoney-devel] Re: [Bug 241855] Reconciliation wizard fails to calculate correct difference

[David Houlden]

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 Jack wrote:
> On 2010.09.29 02:34, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > on Wednesday 29 September 2010 02:33:47 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> >> It's actually simpler to me to show the date of either  a Cleared or
> >> empty status transaction. I leave that decision to the group.
> >>
> > > Let me know and I'll make the change.
> >
> > I see the confusion here. The term 'not reconciled' as the state
> > information is probably not good and should receive another name. I
> > propose 'None' at this point as the member variable is named
> > 'm_reconcileFlag' and it would reflect the state of the UI that there
> > is no flag set (not cleared and not reconciled).
> >
> > Does that make sense?
>
> [....]
>
> It does make sense, but I'm not sure "None" would help anyone who does
> not already know how reconciliation works.  In the transaction form,
> the field label is "Status" so would a more explicit "Not set" work?
> I'm trying to think about the new user who does not yet understand how
> reconciliation works.  The values of the field are "reconciled" or
> "cleared" or something else, but the third one isn't really another
> value, it just hasn't been set to one of the first two.
>
"Not set" sounds good. In the status filter selection list it appears 
as "Not marked". 
So what would Alvaro's new message in the reconciliation wizard be? I'm not 
sure exactly what information or condition it is trying to convey to the 
user.