How to differ opened tabs with the same name?

[Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior]

Hi John,

I thought about this too, but the account names will be unnecessarily big.

Regards

2009/10/13 John Edwards <jedwards80 at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior
> <lcjunior at ufrj.br> wrote:
> > If we think in my account structure as a tree, some of the leaves have
> the
> > same name. Of course they are different accounts, but when they are
> opened,
> > gnucash shows only the last name of each account and so they look like
> the
> > same in the tab list. If I open all CheckingAccounts, it will appear
> like:
> >
> > CheckingAccount
> > CheckingAccount
> > CheckingAccount
> > CheckingAccount
> >
> > Additionally, when some account is selected, there is no way to know its
> > "complete name", so we have to know which one was selected.
> >
> > Hence, my suggestions (options) are:
> >
> >   - Allow to put colors in the account tabs: the color would be selected
> in
> >   the accounts properties and, by default, it would inherit parent's
> color;
> >   - Show the "complete name" of each account when it is selected.
> >
> > I am suggesting this because I couldn't find other way to do it. If there
> is
> > such way, please let me know.
>
> What I do is give each of the accounts a unique name, generally by
> incorporating the name of the tree, or some other distinguishing
> feature.
>
> For example, for the accounts my wife and I have, I've done something like
> this:
> BankA Chequing, Joint
> BankA Savings, John
> BankA Savings, Wife
>
> BankB Chequing, John
>
> etc.
>
> The other option, I believe, would be to assign account numbers, so
> all your Asset accounts would be in the 100s, those from Bank A would
> be in the 110s, Bank B the 120s, etc. I'm not sure if that shows up in
> the tab, however.
>
> John
>
> --
> John Edwards
> "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against
> incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell
>