Register colors & appearance

[David S Dampier]

Does Gnucash do payroll?

Thanks,
David

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 01:20 -0800, Kim_Wood wrote:
> A couple of things... 
> 
> 1)  I suggest that the default Gnucash register appearance is not as
> attractive to existing Quicken users as it should be.  I believe that a
> Quicken user might be more likely to find Gnucash initially interesting and
> make the switch to Gnucash if the default register choice was as follows:
> 
> Register Defaults/Double Line Mode - on
> 
> Register/Double line mode colors alternate with transactions  - on (with all
> other Graphics options turned off including horizontal & vertical lines)
> 
> 2) Have the developers got strong views why the the default Gnucash register
> appearance is single line, rather than double line?  IMHO it is a very
> unattractive & less functional choice than double line/alternating color
> mode.
> 
> This provides a "Quicken-style" register appearance.  Further, it would be
> great to be able to select alternating register background colors other than
> green and white - with the selected register highlighted yellow.  They
> aren't too bad - but I would prefer to select my own colors.  I assume that
> I can edit one of the Gnucash config files to do this - but I have searched
> for information on this, but with no luck.  Can anyone help with this?
> 
> Having said all that - Gnucash is a great product.  I ditched Quicken months
> ago with no regrets at all!
> 
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