[GNC] TABs

[Peter]

Hi, Graham,

I just tried a few reports and clicked on several links therein. When I 
closed the accounts I'd gone to from the links, the live screen/tab was 
the report. I don't seem to have the problem you do.

Using Version: 5.14, Build ID: 5.14+(2025-12-20) on Windows 10

Peter

On 30/03/2026 4:04 pm, Graham Balin wrote:
> My beef with tabs is reports. If you double click to drill down into an
> item in a report, find what you are looking for, and close that tab, you
> end up in the tab below the report.
> Is there any way that it reverts to the report when you close?
>
> Cheerio,
>
> Graham
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2026, 04:26 Peter via gnucash-user,<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Rob,
>>
>> I don't have that problem at all  - if I understand you correctly.
>>
>> I have about six tabs always open and keep them in a particular order.
>> Now, if I am on, say the first of those tabs and open a saved report,
>> the report opens a new tab under (or beside, depending on where you keep
>> your tabs) the tab I am in, and moves all the other open tabs down (or
>> right). If I want the report to open at the bottom (or right) of the
>> open tabs, I click on the bottom (or right) tab first.
>>
>> Often I have to go to Accounts tab to open an account that I usually
>> keep closed and the new tab opens (of course) below the Accounts tab. If
>> the Accounts tab is at the top, the new tab open below it and shuffles
>> all the already open tabs down. Answer is to keep the Accounts tab at
>> the bottom.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On 30/03/2026 1:18 am, Robert Umberger wrote:
>>> I have spent my whole business life in accounting.  I don't know about
>> the
>>> rest of you but, to me, accounting means STABILITY!
>>>
>>> I like to know where I am financially, I like stability, plus a little
>>> earning here and there.  In the financial world, accurate reporting is
>>> stability.
>>>
>>> I don't like my accounting category TABs dancing around like they are at
>> a
>>> drunken teenage party.
>>>
>>> Does anyone out there know how to make the TABs I have choosen to alway
>> be
>>> displayed of: checking, savings, investments, and liabilities to stay in
>> a
>>> STABLE ORDER as I like them arranged?
>>>
>>> Maybe a nice little check box in the Edit - Preferences - Windows - Tab -
>>> Saying "Allow TABs to move? Yes No" would be nice!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rob
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