Setting Column Width

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Colin Scott <gnucash at double-bars.net> wrote:
>
> Derek -
>
> You said
>
>> This is in the FAQ:
>
> It seems to me that the fact this question arises frequently enough to
> warrant an entry in the FAQ is an indication that the current method of
> dealing with columns is not entirely satisfactory.  Are there any future
> plans to make columns work in a more intuitive (and, dare I say it, a
> more standardised!) way?

This is somewhat off topic, but I just saw an article which might
provide a tiny bit of insight into one kind of software design
difficulty:

http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2010/09/every-app-has-a-scary-basement.html

The fact that the blog posting mentions complicated technical issues
with the Microsoft Money account register is actually only
tangentially related to this issue -- the account register in GnuCash
has nothing to do with the account register in Microsoft Money EXCEPT
that it is a fundamental part of the application. We can hope that
GnuCash has been designed in a way that more than a couple of people
in the world can understand how to work on it.

BUT back to the original topic --

I just dug through the bug reporting database at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and found a couple that represent the many
that have already been reported:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563588

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110716

I am not a C programmer, but the register is obviously a complicated
and essential part of the application. I presume it takes quite a bit
of effort to learn enough to 1) understand the register code and 2)
make a well-informed and robust improvement to it...

SO, unfortunately, until someone gets annoyed or motivated enough to
get past those hurdles, it's easier to point people to the FAQ.

 :-(