Tom, I don't recall anyone making this request in my time using GnuCash (19 years). But I think your observations and suggestions merit consideration.
My workaround has been to change the default view on a session-by-session basis, depending on the general type of accounting work I have to do, but this is clunky at best. TBH, it never occurred to me in all my years of use-- but I definitely could use a per-register or per-account-type view setting. It would be very helpful! I imagine a per-register setting could be saved in the same gcm file that the column widths are stored. Adding the capability to set register defaults by account type would get messy rather quickly and could lead to additional confusion for future users. Where are these settings made? Where are they stored? What happens when a user has changed individual registers and then attempts to make an account type default? Who decides what the 'normal' register type is for different account types? And so on. This is not to say I wouldn't want to have this; just that with complexity, the likelihood of implementation goes down. The other comments in the thread about the steps needed to save a register's column widths (change the settings, exit GnuCash without closing the register, and then reopen GnuCash) suggest to me that a more robust and user-friendly method for maintaining a register customization (e.g., saving whenever a register is closed, in addition to when GnuCash itself is closed) might also help with those sorts of issues. But that's a slightly different topic. David T. On Dec 16, 2025, 7:59 AM, at 7:59 AM, Tom Route36 <[email protected]> wrote: > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
