maybe align on both ends? Re: Text field alignments

[Donald Allen]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM,  <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> 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.

Not a bad idea. Another possibility is to make the type of
justification an option.

/Don

>
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