payee field with internal transfers - redundant or invisible

[Kinnin Vo-Shay]

When creating an internal transfer transaction, the "Add transaction" window has the added field for "To account", where the linked account is specified. When the transaction is displayed in an account window, the linked account is shown in the "Payee" column, and this makes sense to me.

The problem is that the "Add transaction" window still has the "Payee" field with an internal transfer, and the field can contain data, but it is not shown in the account window. The data is saved to file, meaning you do not lose the data, but can only see it if you open the transaction's details (i.e. in the "Modify transaction" window).

I think that the "Payee" field needs a little consideration in the context of internal transfers, meaning either:

1) the "Payee" field is redundant because an internal transfer's linked account is the receiver. The "Payee" field should not be available when creating (or modifying) an internal transfer.

or

2) the "Payee" adds informational value to an internal transfer transaction, so the field should be displayed in the account window along with the linked account.

My personal thinking is to go with #1; though perhaps there is a use case that makes #2 more favourable? Perhaps there are some other way of handling payees with internal transfers?

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

I agree (and I know) BUT:
there was a time before 5.03 where the account was not displayed as payee, but it was the payee
#1460370 internal xfer credit should display 'From account'

some people maybe still uses this field, so I can't remove it
even if it make sense to do.