[GNC] Tabs Behaviors in GNC4.1

Wed Sep 16 20:23:38 EDT 2020

David = Problem child :-)

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 09:59, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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