For the last thirty years (has it really been that long?) I have been using Quicken to track the finances of about twelve entities. Most are individuals, but there are two non-profits, a trust, and two "real" companies. Starting five years ago, I have been slowly converting these to GnuCash, and I now have moved over four of them.
Generally, I am very happy with GnuCash, and I both thank and congratulate everyone who has contributed to it over the years. However, like every software package, it has small annoyances that drive me nuts. However, there may well be (better) work-arounds other people use that I just don't know about, so I thought I would ask here if anyone had solutions. Issue number 1, and the most annoying, is that I like to run all my GnuCash files with certain standard report tabs open all the time. So, for example, I will keep main accounts list in tab 1, the year-to-date transactions list in tab 2, the multicolumn balance sheet in tab 3, then a couple of pie charts, and so on. Any register I open (a bank, say) comes up in a separate window. It generally works well, and I can easily switch back and forth between entities at will, as when I close the file (set of books), the entire configuration is saved and then gets re-established when next opened. The annoyance comes when I am using other apps at the same time and close the main (multi-tabbed) GnuCash window, without seeing that there's a bank register still open behind some other app. When this happens, this bank register becomes GnuCash's main window, and my careful constructed assembly of reports and graphs gets trashed (ie. it is not saved and restored upon the next open). I have to go into the saved reports and reload every one of them again, trying to remember the sequence and hoping the saved custom reports weren't modified without saving. Given GnuCash's window management norms, which aren't identical to Windows norms, I can't really think of any simple design fix. But it would be nice if there was a warning when closing a window containing the main accounts window when there were other registers still open. Surely this is rarely done on purpose, as one can't do much until the accounts window is reopened anyway. Or is there another way of preventing this mishap? Paul PS: a corollary of this is that it would be nice to have an auto-refresh option for GnuCash reports / graphs such that if the focus moved into a report or graph, it would refresh it before the window redraw. This was a performance issue decades ago, but certainly not any more. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
