maybe align on both ends? Re: Text field alignments

[Donald Allen]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:36 AM,  <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:21:17AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
>> 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:
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>
> Of course.  But then middle-ellipsis might be the best default, and
> should be an option.

Yes, I agree.

Did you intentionally send this just to me? I think it should go to
the list, but I don't want to add the list if that was not your
intention, so I'll leave it to you. You have my permission to send my
response to you to the whole list.

/Don

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>> /Don
>>
>> >
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