can I make account names be left justified?

[Jeff Abrahamson]

I've filed an enhancement request here:

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792510

Jeff Abrahamson
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On 14/01/18 16:13, David Carlson wrote:
> That is very interesting and a good justification to provide such an
> option.  I however like the current right justification because I have
> designed my account names to have some critical-to-me distinctions at
> the end of the name.  Sometimes that is account owners initials or the
> last four digits of the account number.
>
> Can we have an option to have it either way and changeable by a click
> in the title box similar the the way spreadsheets do it?
>
> David C
>
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff at p27.eu
> <mailto:jeff at p27.eu>> wrote:
>
>     When viewing a ledger in gnucash 2.6.15 (rev 1ef17e6+), the
>     description
>     is left-justified (good!) but the account names are right
>     justified.  Is
>     there a way to make the account names be left justified?
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     Some context, but this is really trivia:  In France, the basic
>     structure
>     of account numbers are set by legislation.  This seems insane the
>     first
>     time one learns this, but it does turn it out to make it easier to
>     compare books between different organisations.  Anyway, the result is
>     that having those account numbers at the beginning of account names
>     makes a huge amount of sense in France.  So seeing the left side
>     is more
>     important than seeing the right side.  (It also means that turning on
>     the feature only to show leaf accounts works really well, because the
>     account number already clearly indicates where in the account tree
>     I am.)
>
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