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

[Alvaro Soliverez]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 2010.09.29 10:09, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, David Houlden <djhoulden at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 29 September 2010 Jack wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >
>>
>> Then it would be "Oldest not set transaction" It intends to offer
>> information on what transactions were used to get to the starting
>> balance.
>
> Is there enough room to say "Oldest transaction not set to reconciled
> or cleared" or "Oldest transaction not marked as reconciled or cleared"
> ?  The shorter version is OK, but I think the longer one would help new
> users more.

I would stay away from long texts. We've been already criticized on
that wizard due to long texts that nobody actually reads.