Agreed -- IMHO the current budget mechanism is a bad hack.
There are better ones e.g. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Zero-Sum_Budgeting
Test implementation available at
https://github.com/christopherlam/gnucash/tree/master-envelope-budgeting
On 5/12/18 5:38 pm, D via gnucash-devel wrote:
Another option would be for someone (other than myself, because I never have
used, liked or understood the budgets module) to write some documentation for
the budgets.
A third option, even less likely, is for someone who cares to go in and try and
make sense of the budget features, and rewrite
Another case of something recently being an issue all of a sudden...
Perhaps changing the default to include *all* accounts is in order.
Certainly I can see the use case of someone setting up GnuCash for the first
time and one of the 1st items in their workflow being to create a budget before
