[Kmymoney-devel] New account creation issues

[Cristian Oneț]

Hi,

While working on this [1] I found the following problem. Right now we
have two different functions performing the same task, account
creation:

1. KMyMoneyApp::createAccount
2. KMyMoneyApp::slotAccountNew

I guess 1 was the old (original) function and 2 was added when the
account wizard was added. Both functions are still called from various
places. 1 is called from the QIF importer and when creating a new
category. 2 is called when creating a new account. One difference
between the two is that for investments with opening balances 1
creates the opening balance in the brokerage account if it exists 2
always creates it in the investment account. So there are differences
in the way accounts are created depending on the place the account
creation is triggered, should we fix this?

Another issue related to the bug is the constraint that for categories
and investment accounts the user should not be able to edit the
opening balance [2]. What's the reason for this decision? A user could
want to account for previous expenses/incomes while setting up a
category. I don't see anything wrong with allowing that.

Regards,
Cristian

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297223
[2] http://kmymoney2.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kmymoney2/kmymoney2/kmymoney2/kmymoney2.cpp?r1=1.186&r2=1.187&