Notes column in SingleLine display

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

azalea4va <common17 at azalea.name> writes:

> I am new to GnuCash.  What was MOST noticable within minutes of my first use
> was the glaring inefficient use of screen space.  Perhaps 1/3 of a register
> listing is just empty in an overly wide "Description" column.  I personally
> prefer to have the Notes field visible in the SingleLine display instead of
> having to use a DoubleLine display (halving the number of transactions that
> can be listed).  While I would love to see that as an official program
> change (those that like things as they are could reduce a SingleLine "note"
> column to minimal size), I doubt that will happen.  I have downloaded the
> soure code and am wondering if anyone can provide some guidance in two
> areas.
>
> 1. Hopefully adding the Notes column is a fairly straight-forward change,
> ideally just requring a change to a single function (and maybe calls to that
> function).  Any idea how complex such a change would be?

It's not too hard, actually.

> 2. There is alot of code,  where would I focus my search efforts in finding
> the code that must be chnaged?

Look in the register code; the layouts are structured.  I think you can
just change it in the one place.

> Thank you.

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-derek

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