double-clicking on account names post-r12357

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:47:22AM -0700, Mark Johnson wrote:
> Josh Sled wrote:
> 
> >As the account-tree now allows editing of account-names in place, the
> >account name is (apparently) no longer a reasonable target for
> >double-clicking in order to open the register for that account.  I'm not
> >too happy with the present behavior ... I was hoping that the
> >gtk-tree-view would naturally do the right thing.  In any case, until we
> >figure out how to make it behave more reasonably [1], a workaround is to
> >target your double-clicks on the whitespace to the left-hand-side of the
> >account-name/tree column.
> >
> >[1] "reasonably" here, would be to have a double-click open the
> >account's register, and a click+pause+click to activate the name edit
> >control.
> >
> > 
> >
> A single-click on the little bank icon also activates the account 
> rename.  I was unable to find a place where I could double-click to open 
> the account register.
> 
> I think that allowing renaming of the account here is not a good thing.  
> Think about the relative frequency of the following two actions:
> 1. renaming an account
> 2. opening the account register.
> 
> I'm sure you'll agree that #2 is performed far more often.  Shouldn't it 
> then have the more convenient access by double-clicking the account 
> name?  I think renaming the account should be done by selecting Edit 
> Account from the context menu and changing it there.
> 

I agree.  If it was "reasonably" well-behaved, using Josh's
definition, it would be nice.  But the current behavior is worse than
allowing no name-edit in the tree view.

-chris