I think he/she wants both description and notes side by side in single line mode.
@azalea4va before deciding that the feature does not need to be optional, try it on a 1024 width display with the tabs down the side. Colin On 18 June 2017 at 21:21, David Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, if you read the manual you will find the answer to all your prayers, > or at ieast to all the "faults" that you have found so far with GnuCash. > Well, there is no way to replace the description with the notes other than > to put the text that you want to see in the Description field. Isn't that > good enough? > > > David C > > On Jun 18, 2017 10:32 AM, "azalea4va" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? > > 2. There is alot of code, where would I focus my search efforts in finding > the code that must be chnaged? > > Thank you. > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://gnucash.1415818.n4. > nabble.com/Notes-column-in-SingleLine-display-tp4692253.html > Sent from the GnuCash - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
