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

[KB.claim]

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

--- Comment #45 from KB.claim <kb.claim at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Brendon Higgins from comment #44)
> 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

Good suggestion, and thanks for describing the user experience.
kmm is for freaks and developers mostly, otherwise the tons of messages over
the 20 or so options in the "support" section would not be filled with user
comments - most of these are developers i guess or very skilled computer users
who play around with regex for a while before opening a bugreport (which in
itself is something one must register for and understand). Certainly nothing
for "joe regular".

However, good suggestion, let's see if this is possible.

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