Account Tabs on Tool Bar

[Charles Day]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <
andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:22:57AM -0700, Charles Day wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Tommy Trussell <
> tommy.trussell at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > On 8/28/08, Douglas D. Victoria <doug_victoria at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > How do I remove/hide the account tabs on the tool bar?  Using the
> > > left/right
> > > >  scroll arrows is a cumbersome method for getting to the account I
> want
> > > to
> > > >  work with; I'd like to be able to jump to the window that shows all
> the
> > > >  account and then select the account I want to work with.  Similarly,
> I'd
> > > >  like to delete a report tab on the tool bar that points to an old
> > > report.
> > >
> > > The tabs stay open until you close them -- which you can do using the
> > > little X on them or Control-W (those may depend on your window
> > > manager), or using the Close button on the toolbar or the Close
> > > command in the File menu. The application window stays open until you
> > > Quit, so you can "safely" press Control-W without worrying you'll quit
> > > the application by mistake.
> > >
> > > I agree regarding how cumbersome the tabs are when there are too many
> > > to fit the window. I just discovered that you can get a pop-up menu of
> > > all the tabs by right-clicking in the tab area, and you can re-open
> > > the Account tab that way.
> >
> >
> > Good advice. To switch tabs without closing them, you can also use
> > Ctrl+Alt+PageUp or Ctrl+Alt+PageDn. It sounds like a key combination for
> the
> > most recently used account tab would be nice though.
>
> on that note, I'd like to see the order of tab *usage* preserved. If I
> open a sub-report from a link on another report, that tab will be
> opened at the end of the list. When I close that new report, I'd like
> to default back to the report that spawned the new tab. I know we
> preserve tab order in the books file, but I don't think it's actually
> used in any meaningful UI way.  I'm not sure that my idea is of any
> actual use to anyone besides me, though...
>

Sounds nice to me. Maybe you should add an enhancement request for that. I
have no idea how hard or easy that would be to implement.


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-Charles