Notes column in SingleLine display

[Colin Law]

I think he/she wants both description and notes side by side in single
line mode.

@azalea4va before deciding that the feature does not need to be
optional, try it on a 1024 width display with the tabs down the side.

Colin

On 18 June 2017 at 21:21, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, if you read the manual you will find the answer to all your prayers,
> or at ieast to all the "faults" that you have found so far with GnuCash.
> Well, there is no way to replace the description with the notes other than
> to put the text that you want to see in the Description field.  Isn't that
> good enough?
>
>
> David C
>
> On Jun 18, 2017 10:32 AM, "azalea4va" <common17 at azalea.name> wrote:
>
> I am new to GnuCash.  What was MOST noticable within minutes of my first use
> was the glaring inefficient use of screen space.  Perhaps 1/3 of a register
> listing is just empty in an overly wide "Description" column.  I personally
> prefer to have the Notes field visible in the SingleLine display instead of
> having to use a DoubleLine display (halving the number of transactions that
> can be listed).  While I would love to see that as an official program
> change (those that like things as they are could reduce a SingleLine "note"
> column to minimal size), I doubt that will happen.  I have downloaded the
> soure code and am wondering if anyone can provide some guidance in two
> areas.
>
> 1. Hopefully adding the Notes column is a fairly straight-forward change,
> ideally just requring a change to a single function (and maybe calls to that
> function).  Any idea how complex such a change would be?
>
> 2. There is alot of code,  where would I focus my search efforts in finding
> the code that must be chnaged?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
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