[GNC] Tabs Behaviors in GNC4.1

[David H]

No No No :-)  My tabs are across the top, left to right, COA followed by 6
account tabs - called them pinned if you want - that are the accounts I'm
generally always working in. I would like all new tabs including search
results, regular txn lists on opening gnucash, reports, what have you
always opening on the right i.e. AFTER the last tab I have open.  I know
that the ANZ Visa tab is always last so I can safely close all tabs to the
right of it.  This all seems to have come about because someone liked to
have 50 tabs open !!!!  Not a common use case I would have thought.

I did actually load up the test versions, 3.90... and I may have mentioned
this at the time, I can't remember but it's still a bit foreign to me to go
looking for tabs that I want to close in amongst all the other ones I want
to keep open permanently.

Cheers David H.

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 22:49, D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
wrote:

> Thanks for pointing this bug out.
>
> It's too bad that the suggestion in the bug to discuss this change on the
> lists was not apparently taken up. The devs would then have at least heard
> from some other users about their use cases and preferences, and users
> would have had a heads up about the change. Instead, a change gets pushed
> out based on one person's request, mainly because it involves "three lines
> of code." I'll set aside the wisdom of making changes to software based
> primarily on the complexity of the fix, or on a single user and the
> opinions of three devs...
>
> While it might seem overkill to discuss something as seemingly minor as
> this change, I think *any* change in the user interface should be discussed
> more, rather than less.
>
> Now, we get to have that discussion.
>
> At the risk of repeating myself, let me re-present. In my usage of
> Gnucash, I keep a core set of tabs always open. These tabs represent my
> primary active accounts: my checking account, savings account, credit card
> account, and a cash account.
>
> I leave them open because they are involved in the vast majority of my
> transactions, and it is easier to click on one of the tabs than to go to
> the CoA, locate the account, and open it. I like to have them at the top of
> the list at all times because I can quickly locate them there. I know where
> they are.
>
> With the latest change, I no longer can rely on this. My core tabs move
> down. If I open one of my more obscure accounts to look at things, it
> pushes its way in at the top. If I've opened several of them, they are all
> at the top, and when I am done with those tabs, I have to carefully close
> tabs, rather than close all tabs below a certain point on the screen.
>
> None of this is particularly catastrophic, but it does affect me and my
> workflow every time I open or close an account, so I would prefer to have
> the option of restoring the old tab behavior.
>
> The idea of pinned tabs is interesting, although it doesn't remove the
> need for the preference. If I jump to a new account tab from a pinned one,
> will the new tab go at the end of the list, or bury itself in the middle of
> my pinned tabs? I think the user would still want the option of where the
> new tabs open.
>
> I'll give a clear and unambiguous preference: I want to be able to choose
> this behavior with a preference setting. Put this setting on the same page
> as the tab location setting, and have it read:
>
> Open new tabs: □ At the bottom of the tab list □ After the current tab
>
> David T.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> Sent: Wed Sep 16 03:35:35 EDT 2020
> To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, Stan Brown <
> the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Tabs Behaviors in GNC4.1
>
> Op woensdag 16 september 2020 01:21:19 CEST schreef
> David Carlson:
> > It doesn't make sense to me either, and since it is a change
> from previous
> > behavior, I  think it deserves a bug report.
>
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797787[1]
>
> --------
> [1] https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797787
>
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