Data Entry Weirdness

[Paul Worrall]

On Tuesday, 10 February 2026 21:51:23 Greenwich Mean Time Brendan Coupe via 
KMyMoney-devel wrote:
> I opened the transaction, highlighted the payee and typed in the correct
> payee name and hit ENTER.
> 
> When I return to the ledger, the payee is now empty. It cleared out the
> wrong Payee but did not enter the new payee. This is the case where the
> new payee is not in my list of payees yet. I would expect the typed
> payee name to be accepted, and if it's new, the new Payee dialog box
> would appear.
> 
> In this case, I have to hit Tab to get the New Payee dialog box to pop
> up and let me add the payee and apply it to the selected transaction.
> 
> This is similar the the weird behavior when I select a payee that is in
> my list of payees. One or more payees will pop up when I'm typing. The
> first one will be highlighted but hitting enter clears the payee field
> in the transaction. I have to arrow down to the one I want to select and
> then hit enter. If I want the first payee in the list, I have to arrow
> down past it and then back up to the first one. That is annoying. If
> there is only 1 payee in the list, I have to arrow down once the clear
> the highlighting on the payee and then again to highlight it. This is
> all very confusing and frustrating.
> 
> This is not exactly how the category selection works. If your typing
> matches an existing category, it highlights it and enters it when you
> hit enter. If the category does not match an existing category and you
> hit enter, it ignores your typing and leaves the old category in place.
> So it does not clear it like it does for Payees but it does nothing
> which seems odd after entering data and hitting enter.

The behaviour seems wrong to me too so I've just raised <https://bugs.kde.org/
show_bug.cgi?id=516300[1]> for the Payer/Payee widget.

--
Paul


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[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516300
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