Finally arrived from Quicken. Some Questions

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hello Dada,

thanks for getting in touch here. Here some answers to your questions:

1. That is by design. In earlier versions we had two different modes
   (form based and inline) but that required to maintain two different
   versions of the editor. We combined both (where the form display is
   a leftover which may disappear also) to come up with the current
   version.

2. That is a good idea and extension to the ledger view. Currently,
   it is not available, though.

3. see 2.

4. see 2.

5. Yes, the current development version (looks like you're using it)
   allows that. Right click on the header of the table in the ledger
   view to select the ones you want to have.

The project is always open for patches. In case you want to start, please
make yourself familiar with the project platform on https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney
and join the developer mailing list on kmymoney-devel at kde.org.

Regarding the use of AI, we expect that the human author (you) is
capable of explaining the generated code and knows what it is
doing in detail.

Hope that answers your questions. I have on myself: did your AI
conversion provide any source code which we could add for others
to the project (see contrib subdir for examples)?

Thomas

On Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2026 05:22:21 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Dada Krpasundarananda via KMyMoney wrote:

> PS One more: 5) I'd like to know if the memo can have its own column in 
> the ledger, editable in-line.
> 
> On 10/24/26 22:10, Dada Krpasundarananda wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > After trying many times over the years to migrate 16 years of data 
> > from Quicken 2013 and spending days of work I had given up. Recently I 
> > tried again with the help of an AI assistant (Grok Bot). I explained 
> > what I needed, sent the QIF export, and in less than 15 minutes it had 
> > converted everything. The file opened flawlessly in KMyMoney on Linux, 
> > with all 89 account balances matching Quicken to the cent. If anyone 
> > is still stuck migrating, it's worth a try.
> >
> > After more than 20 years with Quicken, I'd like to keep a similar 
> > workflow in KMyMoney (version 5.2.70 on KDE). Is any of the following 
> > possible?
> >
> >  1. Editing transactions in-line in the ledger. That's much faster
> >     than the transaction box. I can hide the box, but it comes back as
> >     soon as I click a transaction.
> >  2. A list of accounts docked at the side, so I can quickly switch to
> >     the one I need.
> >  3. Arranging that list in a custom order.
> >  4. Hiding accounts from that list.
> >
> > I've looked but couldn't find a way. If these aren't available, would 
> > you be open to a patch for 2 – 4? And maybe for 1, though I could 
> > imagine there is good reason it works the way it does?
> >
> > Thank you so much for KMyMoney.
> > Dada
> >
> >
> >
> >

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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