Backport proposal for "Attached file indicator"

[Derek Atkins]

Geert,

Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> writes:

> Robert Fewell recently contributed work to the master branch to add a 
> visual indicator to transactions when a file/uri is attached, and some 
> further refinements in that area.
>
> There is an enhancement request for this in bugzilla as well [1]
>
> While our policy states new features should be added on the master 
> branch only, I'm considering backporting a minimal base part of Roberts 
> work to maint anyway. That is the indicator itself only. This is a 
> relatively well contained bit of gui code that's not too complicated to 
> review. I'm talking about commits 5bb53c044..5f75f106ee here. Robert 
> made more improvements, but this minimal set would greatly increase the 
> usefulness of the file association feature.

IMHO, useful features that are small, useful, and relatively self
contained (and don't affect lots of strings) are welcome to be
backported.

> Any objections ?

None from me.

> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
> P.S. I asked for this on the bugreport as well, but didn't see any 
> responses. Probably my request got lost in the noise.
>
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744790

-derek

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