[GNC] Possible to Set and Save an Individual Register's Default Style?

[Tom Route36]

David,

I think your workaround (changing the default view session-by-session) 
will probably have to do for now -- at least as a temporary solution for 
my purposes.  I also can agree that asking for a per-account-type View 
setting is probably a bit more complicated than necessary.  Just being 
able to set and save the register views individually 
(register-by-register) would be a great improvement.  And I think it 
would be fairly straightforward to implement that via the gcm files; 
since the Column Widths are already being stored there when a Save is 
done.  Hopefully it wouldn't be much harder to save the View flag there 
as well.

I'm a bit torn between whether to call this a bug or an RFE.  I kind of 
feel like the View setting got left out of the Save function by mistake 
(i.e., it's a bug).  But after hearing both your feedback and Adrien's, 
I guess it's probably more appropriate to consider this a feature 
request instead.  So unless someone else in Bugzilla already has an open 
Bug report, I'll just plan on submitting an RFE.  Anyway, thanks for all 
your input on this.

Tom


On 12/15/2025 8:28 PM, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I don't recall anyone making this request in my time using GnuCash (19 
> years). But I think your observations and suggestions merit 
> consideration.
>
> My workaround has been to change the default view on a 
> session-by-session basis, depending on the general type of accounting 
> work I have to do, but this is clunky at best.
>
> TBH, it never occurred to me in all my years of use-- but I definitely 
> could use a per-register or per-account-type view setting. It would be 
> very helpful!
>
> I imagine a per-register setting could be saved in the same gcm file 
> that the column widths are stored.
>
> Adding the capability to set register defaults by account type would 
> get messy rather quickly and could lead to additional confusion for 
> future users. Where are these settings made? Where are they stored? 
> What happens when a user has changed individual registers and then 
> attempts to make an account type default? Who decides what the 
> 'normal' register type is for different account types? And so on.
>
> This is not to say I wouldn't want to have this; just that with 
> complexity, the likelihood of implementation goes down.
>
> The other comments in the thread about the steps needed to save a 
> register's column widths (change the settings, exit GnuCash without 
> closing the register, and then reopen GnuCash) suggest to me that a 
> more robust and user-friendly method for maintaining a register 
> customization (e.g., saving whenever a register is closed, in addition 
> to when GnuCash itself is closed) might also help with those sorts of 
> issues. But that's a slightly different topic.
>
> David T.
> On Dec 16, 2025, at 7:59 AM, Tom Route36 <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:
>