"Account Color" only applies to "Account Name" column

[Adrien Monteleone]

Although this is getting more complicated, I originally expected this functionality when changing colors:

The tab changes color.
The line in the CoA changes color.
The register changes color.

Subsidiary/related columns or lines should change to a lighter shade of the same color hue, with a pre-defined separation. This would be similar to the current visual difference in the default scheme, but allowing the base color to be changed. The CoA should have faint but noticeable grid lines for readability.

In all cases and places, fonts would adjust for proper contrast.


> On Jan 31, 2017, at 4:25 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> 
> From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com <mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>>
> Subject: Re: "Account Color" only applies to "Account Name" column
> Date: January 31, 2017 at 1:52:16 PM CST
> To: AC <gnucash at acarver.net <mailto:gnucash at acarver.net>>
> Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>>
> 
> 
> Actually, I have been using account colors in tabs ever since they were
> implemented.  There is a setting to show them (or not) in tabs, but I do
> not recall which is the default.  The setting to show them in the account
> tree view should be amended with the words tree view.
> 
> In the account tree, the default white background has alternating light
> gray backgrounds which helps tremendously when trying to see which account
> information on the far right is associated with.  The current
> implementation of coloring overrides this.  If the entire page has the same
> color, if, say, all asset accounts are assigned the same color, then there
> is no way to figure out which account that data on the right belongs to.
> If there were black lines between rows, it would help tremendously.
> 
> I also agree that automatically selecting a contrasting font color would be
> nice unless font color has another meaning as it often does in spreadsheets.
> 
> David C
> 
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:38 AM, AC <gnucash at acarver.net <mailto:gnucash at acarver.net>> wrote:
> 
>> One thing I've noticed with the colors is that the font color doesn't
>> change to remain visible.  For example, if you make an account dark
>> blue, the text remains black and unreadable.   There should be either a
>> font color choice option or some logic to change the font color to white
>> for dark colors.
>> 
>> On 2017-01-31 00:17, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> Op maandag 30 januari 2017 17:29:31 CET schreef David Carlson:
>>>> I presume that you are referring to the account colors as they appear in
>>>> the CoA page.  The real value comes in the tab list below the menu bar,
>>>> where the colors should already appear if they are selected to be shown.
>>>> This change should make GnuCash more colorful that ever.
>>>> 
>>>> David C
>>> 
>>> David,
>>> 
>>> I'm referring to the CoA page indeed.
>>> 
>>> I'm a bit confused by your reply...
>>> Normally it is already so the tab list will be colored when Account
>> Colors are
>>> enabled. This has been implemented quite some time ago already. Are you
>>> suggesting here this is not happening for you ?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Geert
>>> 
>>> P.S. There's also an enhancement request to extend the use of colors even
>>> more:
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727793 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727793>
>>> The proposal there is to color the table headers on account register
>> pages as
>>> well. I have not evaluated that proposal yet (and don't plan to for the
>> time
>>> being).
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