Separate windows, NOT TABS -- is it possible?

[Alex Aycinena]

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:20:59 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Separate windows, NOT TABS -- is it possible?
> I recently upgraded to CentOS 6 and GnuCash 2.4.15 and it appears that
> gnucash
> is now following Firefox down the alley of "There can be only one [window]"
> and is now using tabs, *like it or not*. *I* don't like tabs! I want things
> like invoices, etc. to open in *separate* windows as a default behaviour.
> Is
> this possible? How?
>
> Yes, I know I can open a new (blank) window and *then* find/create
> something,
> but I really want to just find/create from whereever I happen to be and
> get a
> fresh window, without having to go through the extra steps. The older
> versions
> of GnuCash worked that way (as did the older versions of Firefox/Mozzilla).
> This 'craze' of tabs everywhere (with the aversion of creating new
> windows) is
> really anoying (to me). (And no, I almost *never* maximize my windows -- I
> am
> an old-school UNIX user and never used mess-windows -- I really make full
> use
> of my 'window manager', often having multiple windows up side-by-side
> and/or
> overlapping.)
>
> --
> Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933
>


I just checked on the latest master build on Fedora and it works as it
always has - that is, you can set a preference to have registers and/or
reports open in separate windows. Also, if you have a tab you can move it
to a window by selecting in the windows menu.

Alex