Locking Tabs

[edward.doolittle at gmail.com]

Here’s a hack that might work: backup the file that stores the information about which tabs are open, and then just exit GnuCash and restore the file if a tab is accidentally closed.

Of course other information might be stored in the file, information that you don’t want restored. I don’t know enough to comment, but maybe others with more knowledge could comment.

Also, there could conceivably be an issue when the version of GnuCash is changed. 

If you’re going to do this, then I suggest you backup the file frequently, perhaps even every time GnuCash is opened (with a wrapper script, for example). But maybe that’s overkill ... hopefully others can comment.

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From: Derek Atkins
Sent: April 7, 2017 10:42 AM
To: John Morris
Cc: gnucash-user mailinglist
Subject: Re: Locking Tabs

Hi,

On Fri, April 7, 2017 12:19 pm, John Morris wrote:
> Hi All,
>   My wife and I use GnuCash to manage the books for our small editing
> business. Overall it works pretty well, but we do run into some
> annoyances. Today she once again accidentally clicked the X to close one
> of the tabs I have set up for her to do the books. Of course, I can get
> the tab back, but it's not easy because she certainly does not know
> where to find it and I don't use it often enough to remember. So, I have
> to spend a few minutes looking through the reports to find the one we
> want. It would be really nice if I could somehow lock some of the tabs
> so it cannot be closed without some extra step. That way, she would get
> a warning when she accidentally clicks that little button and get a
> chance to reverse her error. At this point, I would be happy with just a
> warning on all closing any tab, but the best would be a flag we could
> set for each tab. That way, closing the tabs that should come and go
> regularly would be easy and closing the tabs that should stick around
> would be diffic
>  ult.
>
>   Is there any such feature?

Sorry, no, there is no such feature.
But it sounds like an interesting one!
Patches always welcome ;)
(Alas, it probably otherwise wont happen unless a dev feels very strongly
about implementing it)

>
> Best,
> John

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-derek

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