[GNC] GC now only opens a report

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

Geert, I can confirm it works that way in 4.14. It doesn't seem like a
bug to me, because a warning message (attached) appears before closing
the original GnuCash window.

I can indeed reopen the Accounts tab through the View menu, but it opens
with only the five root-level accounts. I have to click the triangle
next to each one, and continue going down to expand all the levels of
accounts. (Because I'm not very accurate with a mouse, this process is
pretty tedious. However, this time I had saved my .gcm file and just
copied the saved one over the new one in the "books" folder.) There's
not any way to do one click or one menu command and expand right down
through the lowest level, is there?

Also, it sounds like a design decision that the Accounts tab is not
supposed to be closable. Out of curiosity, what was the reason? I only
use the Accounts tab maybe once in every ten times I run GC, and would
prefer not to have it open automatically -- as long as when it does
open, its configuration is the same and I don't have to re-expand all
account levels, set up columns again, and so forth. If memory serves,
2.6.19 _did_ preserve the configuration.

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 6/12/24 3:17 AM, Geert Janssens wrote, about the Accounts tab:
> You can close it as follows:
>
> - Start gnucash
> - open a report in a new window
> - close the original window
>
> => you will be left with a window that only holds the report
>
> This is a bug. And I *thought* I had fixed this a long time ago. So
> either it's back or my fix
> was bogus.
>
> The workaround is indeed as already mentioned: use View -> New account
> hierarchy to
> reopen this tab.
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