[Kmymoney-devel] [Bug 253530] in ledger view the cursor moves to wrong position after selecting the Transfer or Withdrawal tabs

[Cristian Onet]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253530





--- Comment #2 from Cristian Onet <onet cristian gmail com>  2011-05-24 20:04:22 ---
Response from Michael follows (Michael please use the bug report to post
answers):

Hi Cristian,
So far you are the first and only one who attended to this.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253530

I very much appreciate your interest and comments.
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--- Comment #1 from Cristian Onet <onet cristian gmail com>  2011-05-21
21:29:10 ---
Maybe this is more like a workflow issue:
a) Did you try just to select (by typing and using the auto-completion and the
drop-down) an asset/liability account instead of an income/expense account
(category) - by this you already have the transaction setup and you don't need
to click on the transfer tab - it will be automatically selected

b) Same as above, instead of scrolling trough all the accounts just type it's
name, it is also valid to have a deposit from an expense account (I'm thinking
of a refund)
Unquote

ad a)
I tried several times to do as you suggested, but it does not work.
This is what I did:
Click on the Transfer Tab - cursor jumps to "Pay to"
I start typing " As...." and KMM auto completes "Asset Account"
I press Tab, Tab again and the cursor jumps to the next fields but the next
fields stay empty, although such Transfers to the "Asset Account" have been
done before. So, everything must be filled manually.

This is exactly the same behavior when I move the cursor manually from the
"Pay to" field into the "Transfer" field.
What am I doing wrong here?

ad 2)
Yes, it works as you said, but only if such withdrawal to the same payee
already was executed before and had been memorized.
I maintain 140 expense accounts and 68 asset accounts out of which I only
remember a hand-full. I would be forced to use a hard copy of all my accounts
if I was to start typing the names in.
Again, I do not see what I am possibly doing wrong here.

Cristian, even if I would do as you have suggest and a) would work as you
proposed, do you not agree that it would be more convenient and proper to have
the cursor straight away jumping to the "Transfer" field in case a) and to the
Expense Categories in case b)?

To put it in other words:
As long as a Transfer is not a payment (it is NOT by definition!) it is only
logical to have the cursor default to the Transfer field and not to the
Payment field.
And
As long as a withdrawal reduces my assets' value it is a payment and thus it
is logical to default the cursor to the Expense categories and NOT to the
Income or Asset categories.

I have no idea of the efforts involved to adjust the program accordingly, nor
do I know whether or not the majority of the users concurs with me. As I said,
you are the only and first to comment till this very moment; this makes my
wonder.

If it cannot or should not be done, it's OK with me, after all, it is only a
wish and KMM will stay my favorite accounting application.

Great work, thanks and regards

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