https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469431
--- Comment #44 from Brendon Higgins <bren...@quantumfurball.net> --- Hello all, I think we may be (finally) getting to the nub of the real issue regarding the downside of KMyMoney's approach to gathering online quote data: It does very little to guide the user to a solution when something breaks. The user must first know that they should go into Settings->Online Quotes. Then they must select the relevant quote source. Then they must edit any number of fields of URLs and regex to match the HTML which the source returns. All of those things are very technical and require existing knowledge. I appreciate this flexibility, but it's also obvious how anyone who is not so technically inclined or has limited time will find it all very frustrating. I don't think KMyMoney needs to automate all of this away, but what could go a very long way to easing the pain is if KMyMoney were to at least guide the user somewhere to find a solution. So, a proposal: Why don't we make a page on, say, KDE Userbase to keep track of the latest working settings (known good as of X date), and add a prominent link to that page from within KMyMoney? That way, when a user sees that something's wrong, they will immediately go to the "canonical" place to see how (if yet known) to fix it. This is a perrenial problem (multiple bug reports everytime something triggers this), and I think something like the above would really help users deal with it (instead of arguing on bug channels) while also being more self-reliant. Best, Brendon -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
