2.7.6 - Scrolling in Accounts-Tabs

Sun Mar 18 13:24:36 EDT 2018

There is a list of shortcuts somewhere in the GnuCash documentation.  I
vaguely recall that the list only covers shortcuts that are not OS
specific, but now I wonder if it should be reviewed to see if this tab bar
shortcut is included and if there could be references to help find lists
that are OS specific or Desktop specific in the case of Linux.

David C

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Catscrash <catscrash at catscrash.de> wrote:

> Am 18.03.2018 um 17:54 schrieb David Carlson:
>
> Sebastian <https://plus.google.com/u/0/105491739924907579287?prsrc=4>,
>
> I can share a small tidbit that I found some time ago.  When I want to
> navigate many tabs to the right or left I right click n any tab in the
> tab-bar.   This makes the tab list pop up then I can either use the scroll
> wheel or other means to move the highlight up or down the list.  However,
> that feature is the one that will be going away with GTK+ 3, so then we may
> be stuck with what you just mentioned.
>
>
> Thanks, with 2.7.6 the list still opens on right click and it's still
> better than going through the little arrow thingy, along with Anthonys
> answer, I can properly work now :-)
>
> thanks!
> Sebastian (since you went through the trouble of looking it up :-D)
>
>
>
> David C
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Catscrash <catscrash at catscrash.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> yes, I have a lot of tabs open, a lot of reports in the beginning and
>> then some accounts that I use a lot.
>>
>> If I am at the account overview, it's easy to just open the interesting
>> account, but when I want to get back to the account overview, or a report
>> that's in one of the first tabs, those tabs are scrolled out of the window,
>> so I have to click on the little arrow on the left a lot of times, until
>> the account that I need comes up, or until I have reached the first tab
>> (account overview).
>>
>>
>> Lets say I have 20 tabs open. I want to open another one, it opens in
>> last place. Now I want to go back to the account-overview. I have to click
>> on the little arrow 21 times... This is seriously annoying.
>>
>> If the scroll-wheel would at least scroll the complete tabbar to the left
>> / right, that way I could click on the account I want, without having to
>> click on the little arrow a lot of times.
>>
>> So if scrolling is out, with ctrl+pageup/down I could at least just hold
>> ctrl + page down and it would just switch over the accounts until it
>> reaches the first one. Thunderbird / Firefox work like that e.g. - Also
>> nautilus (which would be gtk3 as well, right?)
>>
>> best regards!
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 18.03.2018 um 16:45 schrieb David Carlson:
>>
>> After thinking about this some more, I realized that the main reason I
>> keep all my tabs open is that very often want to return to the last
>> highlighted transaction in a given register instead of the very last
>> transaction.  Thus I would vote for an additional feature to set registers
>> to open to the last selected transaction.
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:15 AM, David Carlson <
>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> I suspect that Catscrash, like me, likes to have all his tabs open at
>>> once.  Then we usually force the the tab list to appear then scroll up or
>>> down to the one we want.  That is handy when the currently highlighted
>>> transaction in the currently focussed register does not contain the desired
>>> account or the user wants to jump to a tab for an open report or another
>>> special tab.
>>>
>>> I agree that having a documented method to choose a certain tab would be
>>> a nice feature, and I, for one would use it if I knew about it.  Along the
>>> same line, I do not know of any way to jump to the currently (or
>>> previously) highlighted transaction in a tab of the type that includes
>>> sub-accounts.  I would love to see a shortcut to do that.
>>>
>>> David C
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 8:26 AM, D via gnucash-user <
>>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I usually point at the tab I want and click on it.
>>>>
>>>> On March 18, 2018, at 2:10 PM, Catscrash <catscrash at catscrash.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Also: There seems to be no other way to get quickly through the Tabs -
>>>> how do you do it? Ctrl+Tab doesn't work, ctrl+page down doesn't work...
>>>> There certainly must be something?
>>>>
>>>> thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 18.03.2018 um 10:04 schrieb Catscrash:
>>>> > Am 17.03.2018 um 18:12 schrieb Maf. King:
>>>> >> Hi,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> you must have missed John Ralls' reply at 22:56 (GMT) on tuesday
>>>> where he said
>>>> >> it wasn't available in the toolkit...
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Maf.
>>>> >>
>>>> > Indeed, somehow that didn't reach me, thanks!
>>>> >
>>>> > But that's terrible, is this something permanent? Why did they remove
>>>> it
>>>> > from the toolkit? Can gnucash implement it without the toolkit?
>>>> >
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