[Bug 416216] Re: Can't Take Seriously

[John Bradley Bulsterbaum]

** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: gnucash
+ The whole 'starting balance' 'bug' mentioned several times is, I
+ believe, a true bug; I understand (now, I didn't initially) the process
+ of entering a transaction into 'Equity' and then setting it as a
+ transfer to another account, but honestly why the extra complication?
+ Why not just do the obvious and have the program, without that gui, do
+ this? That's what many people use software for: 'let's simplify', or
+ they hope to: often it brings its own needless complexities.
  
- Hypothetical Scenario: house gets raided by authorities, they take your
- computer, then find upon it GnuCash and a 'transfer' into your account
- that's really just a starting balance, with no history of that transfer
- corresponding to your material or electronic documentation. Here is this
- bug labelled 'invalid',
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/321326, however I
- know to well that GnuCash is dropped from all serious consideration (and
- I would have promoted it too, and people listen to me on computers: have
- already been converted MS desktops to X/Ubuntu) from those not idiotic
- enough to think 'minor' details like that don't matter; mere ability to
- enter information in the description while the program's default data
- will still indicate the balance is from a transaction on the date of
- entry, which is another bug, because the program data shows a
- transaction on that day, when it is not.
- 
- For any serious user GnuCash would need to have the capability to edit a
- starting balance, and leave no date of 'transaction' (label the data as
- rather the 'starting balance data input' or something like that, meaning
- the same), unless said user wants to input his/her entire banking
- history with that account (usually a non-option, no?). I know (I hope)
- GnuCash's programmers aren't actually contending with serious projects,
- but 'invalid' details like these should be taken seriously when
- pertaining to money program on any computer, for legal reasons and
- user's sake. Fix this critical bug and I would likely love to not only
- promote the program, but encourage people (and myself) to support the
- efforts. It is supposed to be a solution to Linux's void of a personal
- finances (as in money management) program, right? If so, it needs to be
- serious about detail that will likely matter to users: one of which is
- proper designation and input/presentation of data.  Otherwise details
- like these--I plan to carefully hunt around for more problems because of
- this neglect--make GnuCash a total nonstarter.
- 
- Also, I realize the language above sounds harder than possibly needed: I
- don't mean to be overly critical, but constructive; I say this for
- understanding that programs are, for some, often their coders' babies
- and pride, and that negative criticism can be taken as an attack. Thanks
- much for the work, though as said, I won't be taking this seriously for
- stuff like this, for now, but use cautiously, and searchingly.
+ One more vote (even if annoying, sorry), to consider this 'bug', if
+ 'only' a useability issue (the very thing that so often plagues open
+ source software, along with design decisions, which this also falls
+ under). It seems this should be so simple as to not be thought about a
+ second time, whereas if the code underneath is so difficult to make such
+ a change, why would anyone want to contribute?

** Description changed:

  The whole 'starting balance' 'bug' mentioned several times is, I
  believe, a true bug; I understand (now, I didn't initially) the process
  of entering a transaction into 'Equity' and then setting it as a
  transfer to another account, but honestly why the extra complication?
  Why not just do the obvious and have the program, without that gui, do
  this? That's what many people use software for: 'let's simplify', or
  they hope to: often it brings its own needless complexities.
  
  One more vote (even if annoying, sorry), to consider this 'bug', if
- 'only' a useability issue (the very thing that so often plagues open
+ 'only' a usability issue (the very thing that so often plagues open
  source software, along with design decisions, which this also falls
  under). It seems this should be so simple as to not be thought about a
  second time, whereas if the code underneath is so difficult to make such
  a change, why would anyone want to contribute?

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