Very odd tab behavior in tab window

Bob Thibodeau mrbob3 at earthlink.net
Sat Jun 16 17:09:43 EDT 2007


I've tried to duplicate this without success.
My guess is that the description field is accepting your tabs as input
instead of moving to the next field. Can you get this behavior in
another program? Check the Gentoo forums.

HTH
Bob

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:51:30PM -0700, JT Justman wrote:
> Hi, everyone. I've been quietly using GnuCash for a year now, and I'm
> fairly happy with it. I use it almost entirely for creating invoices.
> 
> I had been running on a 600 mhz machine so I was behind in my updates.
> After installing Gentoo on my Thinkpad, I finally had a newer version of
> GnuCash: 2.0.5 (r15617). I'm running Gnome (light).
> 
> Immediately I found a very odd situation. After clicking into a field on
> the register, after entering data, I try to tab around the fields. The
> focus seems to be moving along the input fields at the top of the page.
> Once the focus seems to enter the register, every time I press 'tab' the
> 'Description' field gets wider, causing the window to eventually become
> abnormally wide.
> 
> Searching by 'tab' doesn't work in Bugzilla, but I found a variety of
> tab-related bugs in there, such as:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411913
> 
> The window growing thing is the oddest part of it. Is there perhaps
> something about my configuration that is affecting this? Or is this just
> a tweak which remains yet to be completed?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> JT
> 
> -- 
> Web:    http://www.signless.com
> E-Mail: jt at signless.com
> Cell:   (541) 543-4888
> Skype:  jt.justman
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.


More information about the gnucash-user mailing list