Menu selection terminology: was Bank of Scotland and Wise

[Jack]

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>> I wonder if there is just a language problem.  When you say "the  
>> menu topics are not available" I understand that those selections  
>> are not present in the menu at all.  Is that what you mean, or just  
>> that they
> 
> That is exactly the point - they are not existing.  Whats the  
> difference between "not available" and "not existing"?

If you click the menu "Accounts" and "Map account" is not on the list,  
then it is missing or it does not exist.  If "Map account" IS on the  
list, but you cannot select it and it shows up in light color when the  
other items are black, then it does exist, but has been disabled, and  
is called "not available."  If it is present and available, but when  
you click on it, it either does nothing or does something you do not  
expect (or does not do what you expect) then something is not right,  
and we need to figure out why.

If a menu item is missing (it does not appear on the menu at all,)  
then  most likely there was a problem configuring or  compiling the  
package.  If it appears, but is not enabled (you can't click on it, or  
clicking on it does not do anything) that is more likely because the  
program has explicitly done so because of something in the current  
status or data.  For example, if an account has not been mapped to an  
online source, then
Account/Update account will be disabled, since you can only update an  
online account if it has already been mapped.  If an account has been  
mapped, then "Map account" will chang to "Unmap account", but you could  
also say that "Map account" is not present.  Yes - the terminology can  
be confusing.  It is also possible for a program to add or remove menu  
items during use, but this is considered more confusing for  users, so  
it is much more common for the menu item to just be disabled, so the  
user can see it is present, but just has to figure out why the program  
thinks it should not be available at that time.

Can you attach a screenshot of the "Accounts" menu list?  That might  
help figure out what is going on.

New question:  what kind of account are you trying to map, and what  
View are you on when you try to map the account?  In order to map an  
account, KMyMoney needs to know which account you want to map.  For the  
main Account menu, I just realized that it will be all disabled (you  
can see the items, but all will be gray and not clickable) because no  
account has been selected.  If you display the ledger for an account,  
the all the actions on the "Accounts" menu will refer to that account.   
Another way would be to display the Accounts view, and Right Click an  
account to get a pop up context menu with all the relevant choices.