Hi,
azalea4va <commo...@azalea.name> writes:
> I am new to GnuCash. What was MOST noticable within minutes of my first use
> was the glaring inefficient use of screen space. Perhaps 1/3 of a register
> listing is just empty in an overly wide "Description" column. I personally
> prefer to have the Notes field visible in the SingleLine display instead of
> having to use a DoubleLine display (halving the number of transactions that
> can be listed). While I would love to see that as an official program
> change (those that like things as they are could reduce a SingleLine "note"
> column to minimal size), I doubt that will happen. I have downloaded the
> soure code and am wondering if anyone can provide some guidance in two
> areas.
>
> 1. Hopefully adding the Notes column is a fairly straight-forward change,
> ideally just requring a change to a single function (and maybe calls to that
> function). Any idea how complex such a change would be?
It's not too hard, actually.
> 2. There is alot of code, where would I focus my search efforts in finding
> the code that must be chnaged?
Look in the register code; the layouts are structured. I think you can
just change it in the one place.
> Thank you.
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-derek
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