Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.

[Derek Atkins]

Bob Taylor <philologos at mindspring.com> writes:

> I have already made it clear, but will repeat my opinion All
> preferences and custom reports should be associated with the data
> file.

I heard you the first time, and I disagree that all preferences belong
with the data file.  I still maintain that Some preferences are for the
user, and some are per-user-per-datafile.  But yes, there are many
preferences that should be part of the data file but are not.

-derek

> My workaround seems to work pretty well.  It has several drawbacks though.  
> 1.  Each company file (or personal) must be set up.  This is tricky.  The path must be correct (backslashes must be changed to slashes) or the program defaults to "C:\Documents and Settings\user-id\Application Data".
> 2.  To move a file would also be messy.
> 3.  Occasionally the preferences are not picked up.  I think this is a timing problem.  It happens only occasionally and closing the file and reopening fixes it.
> 4.  The file must always be opened with a batch file, i.e. you can't use recent documents or history.  This is not much problem, except:
> 5.  you must be careful when opening a backup file.  (This, by the way, is the very bestest feature of GC.)
> 6.  Opening multiple instances of GC is also tricky.  The second instance shares preferences with the first.   However, they have separate custom reports.
>
> Regards, Bob Taylor
>
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> 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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