Locking Tabs

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Fri Apr 7 12:41:33 EDT 2017


Hi,

On Fri, April 7, 2017 12:19 pm, John Morris wrote:
> Hi All,
>   My wife and I use GnuCash to manage the books for our small editing
> business. Overall it works pretty well, but we do run into some
> annoyances. Today she once again accidentally clicked the X to close one
> of the tabs I have set up for her to do the books. Of course, I can get
> the tab back, but it's not easy because she certainly does not know
> where to find it and I don't use it often enough to remember. So, I have
> to spend a few minutes looking through the reports to find the one we
> want. It would be really nice if I could somehow lock some of the tabs
> so it cannot be closed without some extra step. That way, she would get
> a warning when she accidentally clicks that little button and get a
> chance to reverse her error. At this point, I would be happy with just a
> warning on all closing any tab, but the best would be a flag we could
> set for each tab. That way, closing the tabs that should come and go
> regularly would be easy and closing the tabs that should stick around
> would be diffic
>  ult.
>
>   Is there any such feature?

Sorry, no, there is no such feature.
But it sounds like an interesting one!
Patches always welcome ;)
(Alas, it probably otherwise wont happen unless a dev feels very strongly
about implementing it)

>
> Best,
> John

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-derek

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