I just experienced a slightly unexpected, new behavior of GnuCash's account
reconciliation dialog. Doing a quick check of my package installation
details, looks like I had GnuCash updated two weeks ago, and I guess this is
the first time I reconciled an account since then.
It seems that after clicking a transaction, to mark it as reconciled, what
happens now is that not only does the little checkbox next to the
transaction gets set, but the entire transaction gets shuffled to the bottom
of the transaction list, so that all reconciled transactions always appear
after the unreconciled ones.
So: as I go through my account statement, and check off each transaction,
each action appears to result in the transaction list getting reshuffled.
Even though I might already be eyeballing the next transaction to check off,
already, by the time I get to it, it's …somewhere else.
Digging through GnuCashs's preferences, I don't find any option of reverting
to the previous behavior, where I click each transaction to reconcile, and
this simply sets the checkbox next to it, without the entire transaction
list jumping around like something on a bad acid trip.
So, it looks like GnuCash took years' worth of existing UI behavior, and
just ripped it out and replaced with a UI that looks nearly identical but
acts in a completely different, and unexpected way.
Who do they think they are? Gnome?