Data Entry Weirdness

[Brendan Coupe]

On 2/19/26 5:20 AM, Paul Worrall via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 10 February 2026 21:51:23 Greenwich Mean Time Brendan 
> Coupe via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
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> > I opened the transaction, highlighted the payee and typed in the correct
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> > payee name and hit ENTER.
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> > When I return to the ledger, the payee is now empty. It cleared out the
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> > wrong Payee but did not enter the new payee. This is the case where the
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> > new payee is not in my list of payees yet. I would expect the typed
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> > payee name to be accepted, and if it's new, the new Payee dialog box
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> > would appear.
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> > In this case, I have to hit Tab to get the New Payee dialog box to pop
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> > up and let me add the payee and apply it to the selected transaction.
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> > This is similar the the weird behavior when I select a payee that is in
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> > my list of payees. One or more payees will pop up when I'm typing. The
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> > first one will be highlighted but hitting enter clears the payee field
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> > in the transaction. I have to arrow down to the one I want to select and
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> > then hit enter. If I want the first payee in the list, I have to arrow
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> > down past it and then back up to the first one. That is annoying. If
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> > there is only 1 payee in the list, I have to arrow down once the clear
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> > the highlighting on the payee and then again to highlight it. This is
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> > all very confusing and frustrating.
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> > This is not exactly how the category selection works. If your typing
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> > matches an existing category, it highlights it and enters it when you
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> > hit enter. If the category does not match an existing category and you
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> > hit enter, it ignores your typing and leaves the old category in place.
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> > So it does not clear it like it does for Payees but it does nothing
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> > which seems odd after entering data and hitting enter.
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> The behaviour seems wrong to me too so I've just raised 
> <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516300> for the Payer/Payee widget.
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Thanks, I was getting ready to do that since there was not response. I 
confirmed your bug.


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> Paul
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Brendan