2.7.6 - Scrolling in Accounts-Tabs

Sun Mar 18 18:51:47 EDT 2018

It should also be reviewed to make sure that it's correct for Gtk3.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Mar 18, 2018, at 10:24 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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