Bug 402652

Summary: Improve ledger view to make details user-defined
Product: [Applications] kmymoney Reporter: Hamidreza Jafari <hamidrjafari>
Component: generalAssignee: KMyMoney Devel Mailing List <kmymoney-devel>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.0.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Hamidreza Jafari 2018-12-28 15:04:49 UTC 
SUMMARY
There are some design defects in the ledger view:

1- Details column shows payees. Payee is a person or an entity such as an organization. It is a design error to use it instead of the description (or note) of a transaction. Ledger view should have payee as a standalone column besides the details (or description) of a transaction.

2- Information that is required more often should be visible easier. The other side of a transaction should be mentioned besides the increase / decrease column.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Check the ledger view 
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OBSERVED RESULT
It lacks useful information with few keystrokes. It shows as if details is payee.

EXPECTED RESULT
It should provide the required information without disambiguation and in a logically accessible way.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Thomas Baumgart 2018-12-28 15:44:04 UTC 
Did you know, that there is an option to "show all register entries in full detail" to get you access to all that? Also, there is a shortcut to switch between the view types (Ctrl+T) or View/Show transaction detail.
Comment 2 Hamidreza Jafari 2018-12-28 17:06:11 UTC 
Even better is to let the user add / remove available fields as required.
Comment 3 Hamidreza Jafari 2018-12-28 17:12:42 UTC 
(In reply to Thomas Baumgart from comment #1)
> Did you know, that there is an option to "show all register entries in full
> detail" to get you access to all that? Also, there is a shortcut to switch
> between the view types (Ctrl+T) or View/Show transaction detail.

You mean in the ledger view settings? Ctrl+T is overwork for the information that is sought frequently. Letting users arrange the ledger view to their liking is the best way forward.