maybe align on both ends? Re: Text field alignments

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:54:45AM -0500, Donald Allen 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. If all I see, without selecting, is
> the low-order part of the path, I could be lulled into a false sense
> of security that I'm in the right account when I might not be. Seeing
> the high-order part at least shows me immediately whether I'm on the
> right track.
> 
> /Don

I've long been annoyed with the way this works, and woule usually prefer 
to see the end of the account name, and occasionally the beginning.
Perhaps the thing to do is to remove the *middle* and replace it with 
"...".

As long as the start isn't "Root Account", which it is after some 
ancient gnucash version-transitions.

-- hendrik