Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.

[Derek Atkins]

Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> writes:

> Would having a different GCONF_PATH for each account be contrary to
> any gconf standards?  This would provide a way to associate an account
> with preferences settings perhaps.  
>
> .gconf/apps/gnucash_accname
>
> Wouldn't solve the .gnucash\saved-reports-2.4 issue though.

I personally have not thought about how one would implement something
like this.  I think Phil did start looking at it, but he's been busy
recently.

Note that we have Edit -> Preferences and File -> Properties currently,
so we do have "per user" and "per datafile" prefs currently.  We just
don't have per-user-per-datafile prefs, nor do we have per-data-file
data for some other saved data (e.g. saved reports, qif-import-map)

One thing that would be useful would be going through all the
preferences and determining which category it belongs in.  I do believe
that there still are some things that should be per-user, such as #
register lines, colors, etc.  I believe this inventory can be done by a
non-developer.  Any takers?

> Just a thought.
>
> Mike E

-derek

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