[GNC-dev] Feedback on GnuCash 3.903

[Geert Janssens]

Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 19:55:29 CEST schreef David Reiser:
> > On Jun 5, 2020, at 1:26 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > It will need a one time action to set these new defaults once you start
> > using 4.0. I believe we have 6 layouts so that's 6 times you may see a
> > layout that doesn't suit you and you would have to fix it.
> 
> In its current form, the user experience is waaaaaayyyy worse. My use of
> 3.903 (Mac OS 10.15.5) has been quite limited. For several cycles of
> opening Gnucash, the only account I had open was a single credit card
> account (+ the Accounts tab). I was working on getting aqbanking to work,
> and had to edit the environment file to get logging working. I didn’t
> immediately change the column widths because appearance wasn’t my primary
> goal. There now appears to  be no way to reset the default column widths.
> If I close any credit card or checking account tab, opening any of them
> again gives me the enormously wide description column and the absurdly
> narrow transfer account column.
> 
> So the ‘one time action’ appears to be unannounced and irreversible. Unless
> there’s a bug, you’re going to get 10 times as many complaints about
> register behavior as you’ve seen in the past.
> 
Did you actually select "Windows"->"Use as default for this register group" after you changed 
the column widths to your satisfaction ?

If you did and it still reverts to other column widths after reopening, that would indeed be a bug.

Regards,

Geert