Budgeting and loan and asset accounts

[Dave Kelly]

I have been using KMyMoney for three months now and mostly like the 
program. However, the program seems to have problems which is making me 
reconsider my decision to use the software.  I was wondering if I could 
put my thoughts here and perhaps get some information on how to overcome 
these issues and gain some insight into whether these problems will be 
addressed in the near future.

The budgeting module could really use some improvements. First, the user 
interface is not consistent with the rest of the program. The buttons in 
the ledger entry have both an icon and descriptive text yet in the 
budgeting section there is cryptic text only on the buttons. For 
example, in budgeting you have upd and res. I guess upd stands for 
update and res for restore.  However, the tool tip text uses "accept 
..." and "Revert ...".  Likewise the buttons to Rename and Delete 
budgets are labelled "Ren" and "Del". The icons for New, Ren, Del are 
exactly the same. Given the size of these buttons, this abbreviating is 
unnecessary.

My view is that dialog boxes are user unfriendly. The number of 
confirmations required to update the budget is excessive.

Finally, the biggest problem I have is not being able to budget for 
movements to other accounts. My income comes from repayment of a loan I 
made to a company. Like most families, I would like to budget for 
monthly movements to savings, retirement investment accounts and things 
like auto loans.  Not being able to do this is a real hindrance to using 
budgeting. I find that I have to download budget reports to spreadsheets 
to add these budgeted movements to the existing budgets. A bit of 
googling shows requests for being able to budget for transfers goes back 
12 years.

It's a pity that there are these problems which makes the budgeting seem 
unfinished. I really like the rest of the program and I am grateful for 
all the volunteer effort which has gone into making this open source 
product. But, if there are no plans to improve the budgeting section, I 
will have to find another program.

Dave
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