[GNC-dev] Feedback on GnuCash 3.903

[David Reiser]

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 2:29 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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


No I hadn’t. Thanks for the direction. I had looked in a couple places for a reset style command, but I was too focussed on ‘register’ rather than ‘window’.

With the new column width setting arrangement, is it still necessary to keep the ’stretch another column before you can shrink Description width’ behavior?

Dave
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