[Kmymoney-devel] [kmymoney4] [Bug 317511] cannot edit transaction from ledger view after double-clicking on category in category list

[Moritz Bunkus]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317511

--- Comment #2 from Moritz Bunkus <moritz at bunkus.org> ---
What you're describing is a workaround, not a solution. It also only works for
unique category names. It doesn't work too well e.g. if you have both liability
and asset categories with the same name (e.g. "Taxes" or "Presents" or
whatever).

It also doesn't work too well if the category name appears in memo fields of
transactions not belonging to that category. The ledger list view doesn't make
it easy too tell a transaction's category until you click on it: there's no
"category" column, so you can only see the category in the transaction details
view at the bottom after having clicked on it.

I get why you cannot edit a transaction freely from the category transaction
list ( = from the ledgers view after having double-clicked on a category in the
list of categories). If you'd edit e.g. the payee of a split transaction then
you'd also change the other splits that belong to the same transaction, no
matter if they belong to a different category. Might be very confusing to the
user.

However, you can already change such a transaction's category by using "Move
to..." from the context menu. The memo itself is also a field that's actually
unique to this split. So why not make the transaction editable but only allow
changing these two fields (category and memo)?

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