That is very interesting and a good justification to provide such an option. I however like the current right justification because I have designed my account names to have some critical-to-me distinctions at the end of the name. Sometimes that is account owners initials or the last four digits of the account number.
Can we have an option to have it either way and changeable by a click in the title box similar the the way spreadsheets do it? David C On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Jeff Abrahamson <[email protected]> wrote: > When viewing a ledger in gnucash 2.6.15 (rev 1ef17e6+), the description > is left-justified (good!) but the account names are right justified. Is > there a way to make the account names be left justified? > > Thanks. > > Some context, but this is really trivia: In France, the basic structure > of account numbers are set by legislation. This seems insane the first > time one learns this, but it does turn it out to make it easier to > compare books between different organisations. Anyway, the result is > that having those account numbers at the beginning of account names > makes a huge amount of sense in France. So seeing the left side is more > important than seeing the right side. (It also means that turning on > the feature only to show leaf accounts works really well, because the > account number already clearly indicates where in the account tree I am.) > > -- > > Jeff Abrahamson > +33 6 24 40 01 57 > +44 7920 594 255 > > http://p27.eu/jeff/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
