[GNC] Column widths again

[David T.]

Nope, that “feature” is still intact. The Tutorial & Concepts Guide notes this behavior at 2.3.3. 

To date, no developer has felt the need to change the behavior of the Description column, as idiosyncratic as it may be. Personally, I’d welcome a change to make this column behave as most users have come to expect, but I do not have the programming ability to dig into the code base to fix it.

Cheers,
David

> On Aug 13, 2018, at 11:27 AM, Graham Balin <graham.balin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Recent convert from Quicken and pleased overall...BUT...
> version 2.6.12 on a windows machine and 24" monitor-fine; on a HP
> laptop...almost unusable due to description column auto-widening to screen
> width.
> I have tried trawling through the many posts, dating back 8 years!, and
> cannot believe that it still happens! Why on earth is there such a feature
> that is the antithesis of user-friendliness?
> Is there some programming reason it needs to be there?
> I have tried all workarounds except going into programming in which I am
> sadly ignorant.
> Once I have made the error of re-sizing one of the columns -bang, I have to
> keep horizontal scrolling to see what is going on. Does 3.2 offer any
> improvement on this?
> 
> Has anyone got any suggestions?
> --
> 
> Cheerio,
> 
> Graham
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