[kmymoney] [Bug 469431] Need better way to handle changes in stock price quote source

[Brendon Higgins]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469431

--- Comment #44 from Brendon Higgins <brendon at quantumfurball.net> ---
Hello all,

I think we may be (finally) getting to the nub of the real issue regarding the
downside of KMyMoney's approach to gathering online quote data: It does very
little to guide the user to a solution when something breaks. The user must
first know that they should go into Settings->Online Quotes. Then they must
select the relevant quote source. Then they must edit any number of fields of
URLs and regex to match the HTML which the source returns. All of those things
are very technical and require existing knowledge.

I appreciate this flexibility, but it's also obvious how anyone who is not so
technically inclined or has limited time will find it all very frustrating. I
don't think KMyMoney needs to automate all of this away, but what could go a
very long way to easing the pain is if KMyMoney were to at least guide the user
somewhere to find a solution.

So, a proposal: Why don't we make a page on, say, KDE Userbase to keep track of
the latest working settings (known good as of X date), and add a prominent link
to that page from within KMyMoney? That way, when a user sees that something's
wrong, they will immediately go to the "canonical" place to see how (if yet
known) to fix it.

This is a perrenial problem (multiple bug reports everytime something triggers
this), and I think something like the above would really help users deal with
it (instead of arguing on bug channels) while also being more self-reliant.

Best,
Brendon

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