[GNC] No Maximise button on 3.3 in Ubuntu 18.10

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 13 09:31:45 EDT 2018 

Colin,

Does the entire window width depend on on the current width of columns
other than the description column?

David C

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 8:17 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yet more information.  I don't think the basic behaviour has changed since
> 2.6.19, the difference is that the minimum window width is now up to about
> 350 pixels wider than it was on 2.6.19.  So on 2.6.19 with a particular set
> of accounts open this is about 1000 pixels which fitted on the screen ok
> and so could be maximised, with 3.3 it is about 1350, which is wider than
> the available width.
>
> Colin
>
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 at 12:05, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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