Suggestion for 1.6: "Hidden Accounts"

[Dave Peticolas]

"Klaus Ridder" writes:
> Hi Again!
> besides my suggestions for EUR and VAT, which probably win't make it into
> 1.6, a small, but effective suggestion, which probably won't be _too_
> difficult to implement:
> 
> I have created a very complex accounting system wuth more than 100 accounts.
> A lot of them are project accounts of completed projects, which I will never
> use again.
> It would be great to add a flag "Account is inactive" to the account
> properties, and add a button "show inactive accounts" to the main window.
> The account is then not visible until I push the button "show invisible
> accounts too". Then (and that's important!) all hidden accounts are
> displayed in dark grey (instead of black) to easily distinguish them from
> active accounts.
> 
> Inactive accounts should not be visible in the register drop-down-list!
> if you need to book to an inactive account (which will nearly never happen -
> you have your reason why the account is inactive) you have to mark it active
> again.
> This has also the advantage that you cannot acidently acces an inactive
> account.
> 
> Would be great if it would be possible to implement that!

This is a good suggestion, thank you. However, we are now about 2 days
away from a feature freeze, so I don't think it will make it into
1.6.0. But it's definitely a possibility for the future.

dave