GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 701347
Add visual clue that a filter is applied to a register
Last modified: 2018-06-29 23:16:41 UTC
(Copied from bug 689092): David Carlson: I think that if any register view filter is retentive, then the filter active status should appear somewhere in the window of every affected register view. I would prefer it to appear in or near the column titles, but the bottom bar near the activity indicator would also work for me. It also should be flagged visually somehow in the register tab, without adding more clutter to the tab. Perhaps a symbol (choose one, tilde, perhaps, also with contrasting background/foreground colors) next to the 'plus' that appears in tabs for accounts with sub-accounts views. Further, then each filtered view should have it's own tab in the tab bar, and multiple views of the same account should be so identified and allowed. This would, however, complicate the decision of which view to go to when a jump to account is requested. Maybe only one filtered view should be allowed, and/or a jump would default to an unfiltered view, if no filtered view is available. Currently, jumps never go to views with sub-accounts.
I was going to add a bug for this, but found this already existed - thanks David and Geert. Maybe a simpler option to implement would be just to add " (Filtered) " after the account name in the titlebar if a filter is active in the current register? I've seen a number of help requests in the user mailing list from people who have forgotten to remove a filter.
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