[Kmymoney-devel] Feedback

[Briertys]

Hi
I am a new user of kmymoney and after trying a number of other 
alternatives I find your program pretty good.

Just a couple of small suggestions. I had some troubles in the Ledger 
page, entering transactions, until I figured that the transactions and 
the transaction entry (modification) sections are two separate sections. 
I then found the colours bit in the settings section and changed the 
alternate background colour to orange and all was clear. Suggest you 
consider this for a default - to make life easier for newbies.

Also I had troubles with the Dividend re-investment Activity, and with 
an Australian Tax arrangement called 'Franking (or Imputation) Credits" 
. To work around this I created a Dividend Account called Dividends plus 
Cash C/fwd and an account called Franking Credit.

I enter a Dividend Re-investment with franking credit as follows:

1.    Activity:    Dividend
         Security:    ABC Company (or whatever)
         Account:    Investments:Dividends plus Cash C/fwd
         Interest:    Dividend Re-investment plus Cash (Category) 
(Perhaps you could rename "Interest" as Income)

2.    Activity: Buy Shares
         Security: ABC Co.
         Account:    Investments:Dividends plus Cash C/fwd     - No of 
shares and price per share.

3.    For Franking Credit
         Activity:    Dividend
         Security: ABC Co.
         Account:    Investments: Franking Credit
         Interest:    Franked amount $...

Otherwise a very nice product. Hope these comments are useful.

Col Brierty