Register colors & appearance

[Josh Sled]

Kim_Wood <kim.wood at bigpond.net.au> writes:
> 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.  

I find double-line to be too much whitespace; I never use the notes line,
though, and I'm not quite sure what others use it for…?

I turned off the horizontal/vertical lines a long time ago.  I could see that
being the default.

I don't see why there's even an option for "double [line] mode colors
alternate with transactions"; it should always be on, anything else is
confusing … the colors create logically-related regions in the view, and the
"double" line is logically part of the transaction.


I think one of the single most useful defaults changes we could make would be
the default in Register view from Basic Ledger to Auto-Split.  Auto-Split
demonstrates the realities of double-entry, Split balance and the
debit/credit cells without cluttering the display too much.


> 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?

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_change_the_register_colors.3F

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