Can't Take Seriously

[John Bradley Bulsterbaum]

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 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?

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thanks for your bug report, unfortunately this is not a true bug if you read the definition of a bug. Bugs are crash, data loss, incoherences in the software and such things, when people ask changes in existing features and/or new features, this is a feature request. Ubuntu has a platform for users to post their request which is named ubuntu brainstorm : http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ . However unfortunately, gnucash project is not maitained bug ubuntu, ubuntu only redistributes it. You can post a idea about gnucash there but you can't know if gnucash team will ever see the request there. If you hope to suggest something directly to gnucash team, you can do it directly in their own bug tracking system which can possibly be used also for feature requests : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash or simply discuss about that with them.