[GNC-dev] Feedback on GnuCash 3.903

[Chris Good]

Message: 7
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:04:41 +0200
From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
Cc: David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com>, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, mark
	sattolo <mh.satto at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Feedback on GnuCash 3.903
Message-ID: <1993043.K37VJ6KlG3 at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
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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> 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?.
> 
Would another location the the menus make more sense to you ? We can still
move the commands around.

> 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

Hi,

I also would be unhappy with not being able to set per account register
column widths.
It's great there is a default by register type, but I go to a lot of trouble
to set column widths exactly as I like, because I don't like to run GnuCash
full screen so I can compare to other windows.

One question I have is what happens with columns widths for accounts opened
with 'Open with subaccounts'?

Regards, Chris Good