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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