[GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

Sat Oct 13 07:05:01 EDT 2018

Right, I have made some progress on this.
1. At any time gnucash seems to maintain a minimum window width below which
it will not let the window be shrunk.
2. If that width is greater than the available display width then the
window cannot be maximised, which is reasonable.

The problem is that the min window width is not a fixed value, but seems to
vary with which accounts are open.  If I close all tabs except the Accounts
tab and shrink the window down and then open an account the window width
increases to the minimum allowed for that account. If I repeat that
exercise for different accounts it is clear that different accounts have
different minimum widths.  The net result is that if I have certain
accounts open then I cannot maximise the window, but if those accounts are
not open then I can.

I have so far failed to find any pattern relating the minimum width for an
account to the details of that account.

My feeling at the moment is that there is a bug (or at least non-optimum
feature) in the code that determines the minimum width.  If it is not a bug
then I would be grateful if someone can explain what is going on.

Colin

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 16:42, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 16:36, Adrien Monteleone
> <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> > Colin,
> >
> > Can you manually resize GC as if you used the maximize button? How does
> the window behave? (scrollbars?)
>
> I can resize it except that I cannot shrink the width down
> sufficiently small that it will fit in the available space when
> maximised.  Unlike with 2.19, scroll bars do not appear below the
> register when an attempt is made to shrink the window further, it just
> won't allow further shrinking.
>
> Colin
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > > On Oct 12, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using standard Ubuntu not Xubuntu, so there are normally the
> > > usual Close, Minimise and Maximise buttons in the window title bar.
> > > The maximise is a white square.
> > >
> > > I was not entirely accurate in my last post.  I have the Ubuntu Dock
> > > bar down the left hand side and not auto hidden which reduces the
> > > available window width slightly.  If I put the dock at the bottom of
> > > the screen then it is possible to see the whole gnucash window width
> > > and the maximise is available again.  I guess something is noticing
> > > that there is not room for the minimum window width when maximised so
> > > it won't let it maximise.  It is a 1280 width screen so the minimum
> > > window width that gnucash will let me shrink the window to, with the
> > > tabs at the side, is about 1200 pixels.
> > >
> > > Colin
> > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 16:00, Roger Miskowicz <rmisko11 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I tried what I think you said in 18.04 and 3.35 can not shrink to
> where there is a horizontal scroll bar.  The Maximize '+' button is there
> regardless whether the tabs are at the top or right side.
> > >>
> > >> Just to ensure we're talking about the same button.  In Xubuntu 18.04
> I don't have the Maximize button as displayed by Alt-Touch instead at the
> top right I just have '-+x' which seems to be what I have in all my
> applications.  The '+' toggles maximize or not maximize.
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:38 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Sorry, I should have said that all other apps I have tried operate
> as expected.
> > >>>
> > >>> Alt-Space does not show Maximise.  It does show Unmaximise but it is
> greyed out.
> > >>>
> > >>> However I have had a Eureka moment.  There seems to be a change with
> > >>> 3.3 to do with window width. On 2.9 the window (when not maximised)
> > >>> could be shrunk down so that the right hand fields of the register
> > >>> were not visible, and a scroll bar then appeared at the bottom of the
> > >>> register.  With 3.3 it appears this is not possible, the window can
> > >>> not be shrunk to the point where a scroll bar appears.  I have my
> tabs
> > >>> shown down the right hand side and the result is that the smallest
> > >>> window size is slightly larger than the size of my screen.  In that
> > >>> state it is not possible to maximise the window.  If I place the tabs
> > >>> at the top then it is possible to maximise.  I can then place them at
> > >>> the side again and it stays maximised but if I close and re-open
> > >>> gnucash then it unmaximises again.
> > >>>
> > >>> This may also have been an issue happened when I built 3.3 from
> source
> > >>> on Ubuntu 18.04 to test it, I don't know. I may just not have noticed
> > >>> it then.
> > >>>
> > >>> Colin
> > >>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 14:59, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> At Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:39:11 +0100 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Running Gnucash 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10 Beta from the Ubuntu repository
> > >>>>> there is no maximise button, and the window will not maximise by
> the
> > >>>>> usual shortcut methods.  Has anyone else seen anything similar?
> > >>>>> Should I file a bug under the Ubuntu system or gnucash?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Window [size] management (maximize,minimize,resize, etc.) is a
> function of the
> > >>>> window manager (duh). Can you maximise any other application
> windows under
> > >>>> Ubuntu 18.10 Beta?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> It *might* be an issue with the GUI toolkit gnucash is using or
> *possibly* a
> > >>>> gnucash bug in how gnucash is using that GUI toolkit.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Colin
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