[Kmymoney-devel] KMyMoney ledger view tooltips

[aga]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:37:05 +0200
Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> Hi Allen et al,
> 
> On Thursday 18 April 2013 12:20:47 aga wrote:
> 
> > While investigating the reason why it was not possible to edit
> > multiple investment transactions, I noticed that there was quite a
> > number of tooltips in the code that appeared to be non-functional.
> > For instance, if one of the transactions involved a closed account,
> > or if the chosen transactions were not of the same type.  In those
> > cases, and others, editing was disabled, but no tooltip appeared on
> > the transactions to explain.
> > 
> > I was expecting the tooltip to appear this way, in the same way
> > that a missing category/account assignment is flagged.  So, I
> > implemented a fairly simple way to achieve that.  Then, I noticed
> > that, having deliberately selected two transactions that were not
> > of the same type, the Edit button was correctly disabled, but,
> > provided one first clicked in the body of the transactions view, a
> > tooltip did appear, on the Edit button, although with an invalid
> > message indicating 'Duplicate the current selected transactions'.
> > 
> > What I'm suggesting is to combine the two methods, one which gives a
> > more obvious hint, and the other, existing one, which might still
> > have a valid purpose.
> > 
> > Any thoughts, anyone?
> 
> More and more I get the feeling, that this whole ledger business
> comes to ages. Many things have been put in there and you stepped on
> another one of those features. They are around since the KDE3 days
> and might not have been ported to their full functioning into KDE4. I
> don't want to blame anyone who worked on the KDE4 port as this was a
> large job by itself.
> 
> Before putting any more effort into getting the existing stuff
> working, I suggest to re-work the whole ledger view to be based on
> the MVC paradigm and use the existing Qt4 mechanisms more
> effectively. I expect a performance boost of the ledger view as a
> side effect, btw.
> 
> Just my 0.02
> 

Not any time soon, though, I suspect?

What about other ledger area issues?  eg.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317511 , although the question
about being able to edit transactions selected via Category view may
not be a Ledger issue.  What is the rationale for this restriction?

Allan