[GNC] GC now only opens a report

[Derek Atkins]

historically, the application would only prevent closing the "last" open
window, regardless of what's in it.  So yes, you could "lose" your open
CoA by opening a register (or report) in another window and then closing
the first window.  This was, for some reason, considered a feature.

As for remembering the state of the CoA -- it follows the same rule as
everything else:  once you close a tab, its state is lost.  This is true
of accounts, reports, any pretty much everything else.

And yes, the "View -> New Account Hierarchy" has long been the go-to to
remedy closing the CoA.  That's why this function has existed for, oh, 20
years.

-derek

On Wed, June 12, 2024 10:48 am, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op woensdag 12 juni 2024 16:02:05 CEST schreef 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.
>>
>
> The warning message is not really about the Account hierarchy page, but
> about the
> window-about-to-be-closed in general. Depending on how you use windows and
> tabs in
> gnucash, the window you close can have the account hierarchy tab together
> with several
> other tabs, so it may not always be obvious you are closing the account
> hierarchy.
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I haven't found such an option either. Though that would be a nice gui
> improvement IMO.
>
>> 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 don't know really. That behaviour was there already before I joined the
> project.
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't remember. But I agree that would be the right thing to do for
> gnucash.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
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