Gnucash tabs

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sun Aug 8 03:02:02 EDT 2010


On Sunday 8 August 2010, fastsnip-bcard at yahoo.com wrote:
> I've been using Gnucash for many years now and have also contributed to the
> source code.
> 
> The tab behavior of the latest version of gnucash 2.2.9 running under
>  Kubuntu is really counterintuitive and very visually  irritating.
> 
> I love the tabs, but I would rather you follow the Firefox tab behavior
>  which is visually pleasing and intuitive.
> 
> Under gnucash, when I have too many tabs open to display all of the tabs,
>  little arrows appear on the left and right. This is the same as for 
>  Firefox. Where gnucash departs is that when I want to view a tab that is
>  off screen and click on the little arrow to scroll the tabs in the proper
>  direction, gnucash scrolls the screens for the tabs. Firefox simply
>  scrolls the tabs themselves and continues to display the same screen. Then
>  if I want to change the tab being viewed, I click on the desired tab.
> 
> Scrolling the screens is really irritating and is a much slower method of
> changing the tabs displayed.. The Firefox fixed display is much, much
>  better.
> 
> Have there been any other complaints about the scrolling tabs and changing
> display. I know I can click on a tab that visible to display that tab, but
>  when there are too many tabs to display and I have to scroll left or
>  right, simply scrolling the tabs left or right and leaving the screen
>  fixed is less visually irritating. It's a nice software trick, but not all
>  nice software tricks are good.
> 
> Will the scrolling of the tabs be changed to mimick Firefox or is gnucash
>  going to follow the current practice?
> 
> Thanks, Terry
> 
Personally I think this is a good idea. Since you have contributed to the 
source code in the past, I invite you to send in a patch for this improvement 
as well ?


Geert


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