Register colors & appearance

[David S Dampier]

mea culpa

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:36 +0000, Richard Ullger wrote:
> What does payroll have to do with register colours & appearance, which this tread is supposedly about?
> 
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> Subject:	Re: Register colors & appearance
> Author:	David S Dampier <dampierd01 at optusnet.com.au>
> Date:		16th January 2008 9:04:00 pm
> 
> 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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