[GNC] Gnucash-3.0: What's going on with tab label truncation?

[lj]

Yes thanks, that bug report is the same issue.
Don't know why I didn't find it when searching bugzilla before posting... I 
kept getting either > 500 results or 0 results.

Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> This might be fixed in the next release. The last comment by Bob on bug 794953: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794953, seems to explain his solution such that what you are seeing will likely also be fixed. (might even be the same issue)
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> Using: gnucash-3.0 on Slackware Linux 14.2
>>
>> When an account's register is open, the tab should show the account name.
>> With GnuCash-3.0 I'm seeing something very odd. Account names of 6
>> characters and longer are correctly displayed using a tab of the correct
>> width. Account names shorter than 6 characters are truncated - with the
>> 'middle cut out' as the help text says. (Actual behavior depends on the
>> character width, I think - it doesn't always start below 6.)
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> "Salary" (6 characters) is shown as "Salary"
>> "Phone" (5 characters) is shown as "Ph...e"
>> "Cash" (4 characters) is shown as "C...h"
>> "Gas" (3 characters) is shown as "G..."
>> "OT" (2 characters) is shown as "..."
>>
>> This is very strange. Why is it truncating short names, rather than only
>> long names?  (This is with the default preferences under Windows: Tabs: Width
>> 30 characters, Position: Top.)