Gnucash Prefs

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 18 December 2015 10:52:04 Derek Atkins wrote:
> John,
> 
> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> > AQBanking is a separate library that maintains its own state. AFAIK
> > it does not provide an interface for overriding that. Christian
> > Stimming, who's the AQBanking expert, may pipe up to confirm or
> > refute that.
> > 
> > One reason we separate some preferences and the saved report
> > customizations is that some users have more than one account file
> > and
> > want the preferences and reports to apply across files.
> > 
> > I don't recall any "average users" complaining that their backups of
> > *.gnucash weren't sufficient, though the reverse is common: Being
> > unhappy that backing up their $HOME/.gnucash didn't save their
> > accounting data. Similarly, while we sometimes get asked how to
> > migrate preferences and saved report customizations to a new
> > machine,
> > we are asked far more often how to find the account file itself.
> > 
> > Anyway, that's the history. We're not going to change that behavior
> > in the current release branch, but if your suggestion sparks
> > sufficient support on the user list then we might do it in the
> > development release, particularly if someone steps up to write the
> > changes.
> Considering the saved accounts contain Account GUIDs, they really are
> not useful across different data files.  It probably should be changed
> to get stored into the Book data.
> 
Exactly. There are several bug reports for this (which I happened to just have merged into 
one [1])

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732688