[GNC] Tabs Behaviors in GNC4.1

Wed Sep 16 20:27:46 EDT 2020

Hi Will,

Colours aren't really my thing, I like my accounts to all look the same as
well :-)  Although I always found the default theme/colours on linux to be
better that on Windows and MacOS.

Cheers David H.

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 10:17, will at theprescotts.com <will at theprescotts.com>
wrote:

> I don't have a preference for where new tabs open, I can see advantages to
> either location, and can adjust easily to either location.
>
> But i just discovered that one can give accounts colors and specify that
> the color be used on the tab. If one has some tabs that they want to keep
> open all the time, colors make it easy to see and separate them from ones
> that are just opened temporarily.
>
> Will
>
> On 2020 Sep 16, at 09-16 18:59:18, 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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