Bug 544546 – placeholder accounts should be called immutable accounts

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Bug 544546 - placeholder accounts should be called immutable accounts


Summary:	placeholder accounts should be called immutable accounts


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	GnuCash
Classification:	Other
Component:	User Interface General
Version:	git-master
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	David Hampton
QA Contact:	Chris Shoemaker

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Reported:	2008-07-24 14:01 UTC by Rolf Leggewie
Modified:	2018-06-29 22:07 UTC

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Description Rolf Leggewie 2008-07-24 14:01:28 UTC

Today I learned in IRC that placeholder accounts can indeed have transactions in them and that this is even an encouraged practice to flag an account as "closed" so that new transactions are rejected.  Although it seems minor, I suggest to rename the placeholder accounts as immutable accounts which is what they are.  

(13:32:07) warlord: Immutable works.  It could be "Immutable (placeholder or closed account)" -- where the (...) is in the tooltip.

Full ACK.

I did a quick grep through the source to come up with a patch, but the term "placeholder" occurs in too many places.  I open this ticket so the task does not get forgotten.

Comment 1 Yawar Amin 2010-11-11 02:52:41 UTC

See also [1] for a recent discussion on what to call this.

[1] http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Problem-This-account-register-is-read-only-tp3035294p3036520.html

P.S. Sorry, would have posted a gnucash.org archive link, but can't seem to access the site right now.

Comment 2 John Ralls 2018-06-29 22:07:56 UTC

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