Register colors & appearance
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Wed Jan 16 22:33:02 EST 2008
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:25:59AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote:
> 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?
>
While we're talking about colours:
I'd like to set separate register colours for each gnucash file, rather
than in some global configuration file. That way, I could
distinguish my gnucash windows at a glance.
I'd also like the entry line (where you make a new entry) to have a
different colour from the current line -- so that I don't accidentally
start entering a new transaction on top of an existing one.
Or make the entry line float, so it is always onscreen, no matter what
bit of a register you are looking at. That would probably meet the same
objective.
-- hendrik
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