What is "Forecast (history)" in home page settings?

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Sonntag, 31. März 2019 10:47:32 CEST Thomas Baumgart wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Samstag, 30. März 2019 23:48:53 CEST Jack Ostroff wrote:
> 
> > In the Configure KMyMoney, Home section, the list of optional sections  
> > for the home page includes "Forecast (history)"    When I toggle this,  
> > I do not see any change on the home page.  Was this section dropped or  
> > renamed and the entry in this list simply missed getting deleted?
> 
> Maybe it's another one of those features that were broken during refactoring. I will check.

Nope, it's that way for a long time (also in 4.8 and maybe before that). I added a bug entry https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406074 . In fact, the entry is unused and hence changing it has no effect on the application. So I simply removed it.

> > Related to this, it seems we have several names for the Home Page, Home  
> > View, Main Page.  I propose we stick with Home View (it seems to be the  
> > most common use in the Handbook.)  The one exception is the section on  
> > that page itself, which actually seems to be the only place calling it  
> > "The main window."  I would also propose changing this to The Home View.
> 
> Looking at https://docs.kde.org/stable4/en/extragear-office/kmymoney/firsttime.mainwindow.html one can see, that the 'main window' is the whole application window including menu, tool button, the application area and the status line at the bottom.
> 
> The Home View is one of the selectable views. Using 'main window' for the Home View is certainly not correct.
> 
> Whenever I refer to a specific view to be selected via one of the icons in section C (see picture in manual) I use the name under the icon and append the word 'view'. So sticking with 'Home View' is just fine.
> 
> > Any comments or objections, please let me know.
> 
> Checking the historical forecast I stepped on another bug. Will create a bug entry and fix it.

This has been fixed as well.

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Thomas Baumgart

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