Register colors & appearance

[Geoffrey]

David S Dampier wrote:
> Does Gnucash do payroll?

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> 
> 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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