[kmymoney] [Bug 498485] Depot Balance Chart completely wrong

[jesse]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498485

jesse <jvapr27 at yahoo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from jesse <jvapr27 at yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to KB.claim from comment #0)
> Created attachment 177263 [details]
> here should be a straight line with 100 EUR, instead without units some
> weird numbers. Dates not readable. Absolute horror!
> 
> I have a stock depot with 20 EUR balance, EUR is the base currency of the
> database.
> 
> Go to Investments -> Equities and select the depot, then click "Show Balance
> Chart", and the chart that opens is criminal!
> A wild fluctuating chart! While it should be a straight line!
> 
> The values on the axis are completely wrong too! No unit on the scales, date
> unreadable, not clear which year that means.
> 
> kMyMoney is absolut crap!
> Wherever one clicks and digs deeper this software fails.
> It is absolutely shocking that such software is published without a clear
> warning that it cannot be trusted a millimeter.

I am just a grateful user, so I will ignore your incredibly rude comments. I am
sure anything you would produce would be way worse.

I have been a user for almost 10 years and I am extremely grateful for the
volunteer work that the developers have contributed. kMyMoney is incredibly
useful and incredible software, especially considering it is built by devs
spread all around the world! 

I do want to add that for me the balance chart, seems to work for me well-
depending on what it was intended to do.  

I do agree with the rude user that the chart is difficult to read. I have
always assumed the goal of the chart was more to get an overall sense of the
direction of the account(hopefully trending upwards when it is an asset or
investment account). This is the way I use it. 
If it was intended to be consumable and for the details to be useful, then it
would need to have a way to set a time frame and a better date displayed. 

As I mentioned, I use the Show Balance Chart, as a quick overview. Then I go to
the reports and run a report there for the specific security or account I am
interested in. There I can set the time frame and all kinds of other settings. 

This may just be inconsistency with how the user expects to use the chart and
how it was intended to be used. A person with the vision on what the chart was
intended to show would have to jump in to answer for sure. 

kMyMoney Version 5.1.3-eef04f1

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