[kmymoney] [Bug 419280] New: Ledgers account dropdown does not show categories or hidden equity accounts

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419280

            Bug ID: 419280
           Summary: Ledgers account dropdown does not show categories or
                    hidden equity accounts
           Product: kmymoney
           Version: 5.0.8
          Platform: Debian stable
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kmymoney-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: lifeoftheory at mail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

In Ledgers, the account dropdown fails to reflect the actual account/category
in two conditions:

* When Configure -> General -> Filter -> "Show equity accounts" is disabled,
viewing an equity account in Ledgers does not show the equity account in the
accounts dropdown. (e.g. by double-clicking a transaction belonging to an
equity account in Payees). Also, no "Account" column appears like in the
following scenario.
* Viewing a category in Ledgers does not update the accounts dropdown,
irrespective of the "Show categories in the accounts list view" checkbox
setting. An "Account" column appears instead, which is confusing for several
reasons:
    1. The column represents a category, not an account (unless you're going by
the accounting definition, which confusingly overloads the word "account")
    2. It is not consistent with the view for regular accounts.
    3. The column only shows the leaf node of the account hierarchy, which
conflates two different leaf nodes of the same name.
    4. The "Account" column is unnecessarily redundant; in this view, only one
category's transactions are shown.

To resolve both scenarios, I think it's better to remove the "Account" column
and add temporary entries to the accounts dropdown. These temporary entries
would behave as follows:

1. When a category/hidden account is opened in Ledgers, a partial hieararchy is
added to the accounts dropdown that consists of the category/hidden account and
all its parents.
2. When a regular account or another category/hidden account is opened, the
temporary entries should be updated as necessary for that account.
3. These entries should be stylized in italics (or something to distinguish
them from regular entries)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 4:4.14.38-3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0
Qt Version: 5.11.3

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