another weird bug

Jeremy Whiting jeremypwhiting at gmail.com
Sun Oct 22 04:53:43 BST 2023


Awesome, thanks.

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 1:17 PM Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:

> 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
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas Baumgart
>
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