[GNC-dev] Feedback on GnuCash 3.903

David Reiser dbreiser at icloud.com
Fri Jun 5 15:17:12 EDT 2020


> On Jun 5, 2020, at 3:04 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 20:58:29 CEST schreef David Reiser:
> > > On Jun 5, 2020, at 2:29 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be <mailto: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>
> > > > > <mailto: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’.
> > 
> Would another location the the menus make more sense to you ? We can still move the commands around.

Having it be a direct menu command is more important than which menu it’s in. I think it fits better with the rest of the windows menu items than it would fit in another menu. Now that I know it’s there, it’s easy.

>  
> > With the new column width setting arrangement, is it still necessary to keep
> > the ’stretch another column before you can shrink Description width’
> > behavior?
> > 
> Good question. Personally I have always considered this to be a user experience wart, but so far nobody has decided to remove it.
>  
>  
> If I remember correctly this was changed as part of the new register project, but that never got stable enough to be included.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Geert


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