Register colors & appearance

[Max Hyre]

Kim_Wood wrote:

> 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.

    Is anyone here old enough to remember ``greenbar'' 
paper?  It had alternating line colors, but each color 
covered three lines (three green, three white, ...), and 
whoever designed it had a solid clue.  (See 
http://www.pdp8.net/images/greenbar.shtml)

It's easier to deal with.  When the color alternation is 
narrow, the eye easily slips from the desired line at the 
left end to a different one at the right.  On the other 
hand, a wider band of lines is easier to follow across, and 
the line of interest is either top, bottom, or in 
between---trivially easy to distinguish when you get to the 
other side.

    I'd like to be able to control the alternation of colors 
to be able to get that effect.  Is there a straightforward 
way to do so?


> Having said all that - Gnucash is a great product.

Hear, hear!


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