I can see it being offered for ease of use, but I agree, it should be either editable from that dialog or maybe at least a tool-tip offered explaining to edit it in one of the respective registers.
Certainly, this is a usability bug. Regards, Adrien > On Oct 16, 2019 w42d289, at 1:27 PM, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > > On 2019-10-16 12:10, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> Also, the Opening Balance entry *is* editable, even in 2.6.x. I’ve done it >> myself. It is just a regular transaction. > > I believe you, but I must say that that was very far from obvious to > this new user. I couldn't understand why the Account dialog displayed an > opening balance but wouldn't let me correct it. So I ended up making all > my opening balance transactions myself, through General Ledger or one of > the account registers. > > -- > Regards, > Stan Brown _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.