Qif import and memos

[Derek Atkins]

Jeff Carneal <jeff-ml at soldmy.net> writes:

> Right.  But how does this make what I'm proposing a Bad Thing?   
> Again, it's been done for a good reason on the far account.  It can  
> be done also for the memo field.  Those of us who are coming from  
> commercial accounting programs are rather used to seeing the memo in  
> single line registers, and I haven't yet seen a compelling reason why  
> this can't be the case for gnucash.

Because:

a) It's not an often-used field
b) The register is already crowded enough
c) We already have precedence for requiring the user to change
   the register view in order to see certain, specific additional
   information about transactions.

>> Preferences are bad..
>
> If you say so.

Not only do I say so, but the HIG says so, too.

Now, once we get the register rewrite in place we /might/ be able to
allow the user to configure their own register views (sort of how
you can configure which columns you see in the Account Tree).  Note
that this is a possibility for something that could happen, but don't
take this as a guarantee that that feature will be implemented.  I'm
just saying that it would be much easier with that implementation.

And honestly, I think you're alone (or in a very very tiny majority)
asking for this feature.  For one thing, as you can see from Bugzilla,
nobody has asked for it for over six years....  So it's probably not
an oft-wanted feature.  I know that I wouldn't ever use it myself.

-derek
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