another weird bug

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2023 21:46:46 CEST Jeremy Whiting via KMyMoney-devel wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475841 filed. Thanks again, if I'm
> able to get master built again I'll take a stab at it, but it's there in
> case I don't get back to it.

Fixed in the meantime. Thanks for pointing it out. I might have never noticed
it.



> On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 1:40 PM Jeremy Whiting <jeremypwhiting at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, will do. Thanks for confirming.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 1:35 PM Jack via KMyMoney-devel <
> > kmymoney-devel at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2023.10.19 14:02, Jeremy Whiting via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > If this is already fixed in master I apologize. I haven't rebuilt
> >> > kmymoney
> >> > in a few weeks. But I hit something and thought it was worth
> >> > mentioning at
> >> > least here to check. I'll file a bug if it's not known after I
> >> > rebuild and
> >> > make sure it's still happening.
> >> >
> >> > When I enter a new transaction and enter a payee with the wrong case
> >> > (In my
> >> > case typing "myriam" instead of "Myriam" a popup comes up asking if I
> >> > want
> >> > to add Myriam to the list of payees even though that casing is
> >> > already an
> >> > existing payee. It seems the case is getting fixed after it has
> >> > checked for
> >> > an existing payee, but before it shows the popup asking if I want to
> >> > add.
> >> >
> >> > BR,
> >> > Jeremy
> >> >
> >> I can confirm - still present in git head master (unless someone snuck
> >> in a fix in the past day.)
> >>
> >> Rather than saying the case gets fixed, I'd say it is matching to an
> >> existing payee using case insensitive matching, but then not
> >> recognizing it is using the existing payee.  Still a bug.  However, if
> >> it offers one or more transactions to use as a template for the new
> >> transaction, and you pick one of them, it uses the existing payee.
> >> (That seems OK.)  On the other hand, if you say "Yes" to creating the
> >> new Payee, it creates one with the same capitalization as the existing
> >> one, with "[1]" appended, instead of adding a new payee with the
> >> different capitalization as just entered.
> >>
> >> I think Payees should be unique (case insensitive,) although I suppose
> >> that could be debated.  In any case, filing a bug makes sense, as the
> >> behavior does need to change.
> >>
> >> Jack
> >>
> >
> 

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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