[GNC] Altering the defaults for printing invoices

[Dave Hayes]

In the normal user case, when printing an invoice, one clicks "Options"
in the toolbar and is presented with 4 tabs of choices before printing
one's invoice to send.

There has never (to my knowledge, and I've been using gnucash for years) been a
way to save these as defaults, causing most users to have to slog through 4
tabs of options and redo them for each invoice.

This might be especially painful if you use custom CSS like I do but you got
even more custom with it than I did. 

On FreeBSD, I have a solution which I apply on each release (this is not for
the timid):

--- invoice.scm	2021-01-04 11:58:52.211210000 -0800
+++ realpath.scm	2021-01-04 11:56:56.833457000 -0800
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 (define (addif pred . data) (if pred data '()))
 
 (define base-css "/* advanced users only */
+.invoice-title { font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold }
 .div-align-right { float: right; }
 .div-align-right .maybe-align-right { text-align: right }
 .entries-table * { border-width: 1px; border-style:solid; border-collapse:
collapse} @@ -235,12 +236,12 @@
   (gnc:register-inv-option
    (gnc:make-simple-boolean-option
     (N_ "Display Columns") (N_ "Discount")
-    "k" (N_ "Display the entry's discount?") #t))
+    "k" (N_ "Display the entry's discount?") #f))
 
   (gnc:register-inv-option
    (gnc:make-simple-boolean-option
     (N_ "Display Columns") (N_ "Taxable")
-    "l" (N_ "Display the entry's taxable status?") #t))
+    "l" (N_ "Display the entry's taxable status?") #f))
 
   (gnc:register-inv-option
    (gnc:make-simple-boolean-option
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@
    (gnc:make-text-option
     (N_ "Display") (N_ "Extra Notes")
     "u" (N_ "Extra notes to put on the invoice.")
-    (G_ "Thank you for your patronage!")))
+    (G_ "Thank you for the opportunity to assist you!")))
 
   (gnc:register-inv-option
    (gnc:make-multichoice-option

Naturally, since invoice.scm changes each release (and sometimes changes
pathnames), this has to be done on each upgrade of gnucash. 

Given that background my question is this: are there ever any plans to change
gnucash's behavior so a default set of options are savable by a user?

Thanks in advance. 
-- 
Dave Hayes - Consultant - LA CA, USA - dave at dream-tech.com
>>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<<

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