[GNC] Tabs Behaviors in GNC4.1

[David Carlson]

David H.,

You are one of many Davids that are subscribed to GnuCash maillists. I have
trouble remembering which of us wrote what.  I think it is David T that
likes the menu tabs on the left side.  We all have our unique preferences!

I do think that this particular  feature can be adapted to by retraining
the operator by about the same level of training as switching from one
desktop to another in Linux, so I, for one, am only flabbergasted by it
being sprung on us seemingly without warning.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 6:32 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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David Carlson