The thing is, there's a good chance we won't know if somebody uses the
feature and happens to not be on this forum, which is very likely.
So out of caution, I would err on the side of keeping it. The code bloat
isn't enormous. In my PR I removed a bit of it, and simplified things a bit.
I know that as a user, I really dislike when features disappear... (if I
happen to use them).
I think the onus is on us to justify why it's really bad to keep the
feature.
Jean
P.S. Nobody's suggesting to remove reconciling! I think it was a
misunderstanding from the start!
On 7/12/2020 3:02 PM, John Ralls wrote:
Larry,
Thanks for the offer, but I wouldn't want to turn our users into more product for survey
monkey. Besides, I'm not looking for votes, I'm looking for reasons why removing the
dialogs might be a bad thing. A single person with a persuasive reason would outweigh all
of the "don't cares".
To your points: A Scheduled Transaction is an even better reminder and quick
fill (aka autocomplete) in the register will fill in the last payment account
too. What quickfill won't do is pre-populate the credit field with the
reconciled balance.
Regards,
John Ralls
On Jul 12, 2020, at 2:11 PM, Larry Long <llon...@gmail.com> wrote:
John, I almost always pay off entire credit card balances, so I rarely ever use the "interest
charge" pop-up.However, I do use the "interest earned" pop-up associated with bank
accounts.
I find it a convenient reminder for me to enter that figure before I begin checking-off
transactions in the reconcile window.Similarly, I use (and appreciate) the "payment
transaction" pop-up window associated with credit card accounts. The fact that it
remembers and prepopulates my usual source account for the payment is also a handy
convenience for me.
Could I do without these two features? Certainly.
Do I find them helpful and time-saving for me? Yes.Compelling reasons? While
I find them helpful, I can't say that I have any.
If you want a survey of your users, I don't believe that this list is the best
method.
I would suggest that you set up a free account on Survey Monkey, create your
questions there and post a link on this list. It will accumulate the results
for you and is much less effort than trying to track responses here.
I'd be happy to create one for you based on what you asked below. However, if
you wanted to write your own questions, it might be better for you to do it.
Meanwhile, a huge "Thank You" to you and the entire team for all the effort
that you folks put into the software--and in answering questions on this list!
Regards,Larry Long
On Sunday, July 12, 2020, John Ralls wrote: > > Frank and I have both opined on
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797854 that the whole
interest payment as part of reconciling is stupid. I want to add to that
opinion that so is the payment
transfer that optionally pops up when one finishes reconciling a credit card
account. It's a lot of
program complexity that relieves the user of very little work indeed: Those
interest and payment
transactions can just as easily--maybe more easily--be created in the register
before and after
reconciling, and in the case of interest they're an obvious candidate for a
scheduled transaction.
But that's a UI change and UI changes tend to generate heated disagreement. I
want to get that out
of the way up front: Who here objects to removing the interest and payment
transfer automatic popups
and the interest payment button on the reconcile info dialog, and what
compelling reason do you have
for objecting?
Regards,
John Ralls
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