[Kmymoney-devel] Re: Accounts, categories, and budgets

[Cristian Oneț]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Good afternoon all,
>
> I was contacted by someone who is working on translating the manual
> into French, and he brought up some questions on the Budget chapter.  I
> have already committed an update so that the descriptions match the
> current GUI, but I still have one open question.  The upper right pane
> in the UI is labelled "Accounts List."  As far as I can tell, this will
> only have Categories.  I know internally, categories are treated as
> accounts, but they are not interchangeable in the UI.  Would it make
> sense to relabel this as "Category List" and then change all references
> in the chapter from "Account" to "Category" to hopefully decrease any
> confusion?

Yes it would make sense do the rename although, at least for me
'Category'=='Income/Expense account' so the account name is not that
confusing.

> In addition, the column "Total Balance" in the account list
> will always be 0 for categories, so is there any reason to keep it in
> the display?

It is not true that the "Total Balance" column will always be 0 for
categories. Just try to setup a category in a foreign currency and
you'll see the displayed balance. It is not that unusual to have
categories in foreign currencies.

Regards,
Cristian

> Thanks for any feedback.
>
> Jack
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