Text field alignments

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > > Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
> >wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> When viewing a register in "Basic Ledger" view, the "other-account"
> names
> > >>> in the "Transfer" column are right-justified. So if the complete
> account
> > >>> name is too long to fit, the high-end ("Assets", for example) is cut.
> > >>>
> > >>> However, in a "Split" view, the corresponding text in each split is
> left-
> > >>> justified - except when that part of that split is selected. This
> means
> > >>> that, for example, I see
> > >>>  "Assets:Current Assets:Savings Accounts:"
> > >>> and have to select the entry to see *which* savings account it is.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is there any particular reason for this behaviour?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I don't know, but if no one responds with a particular reason for
> leaving it
> > >> alone, I will go ahead and change it to be right-justified.
> > >
> > > I have no idea why it is the way it is; I think changing it is fine.
> >
> > I'd suggest changing both to left-justified. Without doing anything,
> > I'd rather see the high-order bits, the part of the path closest to
> > the root of the account tree. I frequently have multiple leaf accounts
> > with the same name, e.g., investments in the same mutual fund or stock
> > in, say, my IRA and my wife's IRA.
>
>  Interesting situation, but I think this would NOT be a typical case,
> and your situation would be easily addressed by adding a bit of
> redundancy to the account name. (You could add the appropriate
> initials to them, for example).
>

The current state (a mix of right- and left-justification) seems
unacceptable. I can quite easily make it consistent. Does there need to be a
debate about left vs. right before I make the change? (I'd much prefer
right-justification personally.)

Cheers,
Charles