[GNC] Tab Rendering Flaw

Tommy Trussell tommy.trussell at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 11:51:05 EST 2021


Thanks for the workaround. I just confirmed that some combination of
right-clicks (bringing up the menu) and left clicks restores the tab label
to its proper position.

I noticed this morning John Ralls pushed an update to the Flatpak so I
installed the update. I am now running the latest flatpak version (Version:
4.4 Build ID: Flathub 4.4-4). It's still behaving similarly

I just opened Bug 798129

https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798129

HOW TO TRIGGER THE BUG

1) Open GnuCash and open enough accounts and/or reports to have more
tabs than will fit across the top of the screen.

2) Scroll back and forth through the tabs using the arrow buttons to
the right and left of the tabs. Clicking and HOLDING an arrow seems to
most reliably trigger the bug.

3) Eventually one or more of the tabs will be rendered in the wrong
location as shown in the attached screenshot.

(The tab area will be blank, and while it may be hard to see, it's
rendered BELOW the tab area.)

Workaround to restore a tab label:

1) Right-click in the empty tab area to bring up the tabs menu.
Occasionally this is all you need to do to make the text reappear.

2) (If the tab is still blank) Left-click in the blank area to close
the tabs menu. The tab label sometimes reappears in the correct
position by this point.

3) (If the tab is still blank) Left-click again in the blank area. The
label usually reappears in the correct position by this point.


On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 1:07 PM A Harvey <gah1178 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I played around with it for a few minutes.  I seem to be able to reproduce
> it.  If I scroll back forth (using the arrows at the end of the row of
> tabs) repeatedly enough times, the label is removed from the tab and stays
> on the screen in the area a few lines below the tab area.  If I right-click
> the offending (now blank) tab opening the drop down menu, then left click
> on the tab (which closes the drop down) the tab title returns to its place.
> -Arthur
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 9:31 PM A Harvey <gah1178 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have just started seeing the problem on Windows 10, GnuCash 4.4.
>> I found that when I have many (as in too many to fit on the screen) tabs
>> open at the top and scroll the tabs across very quickly, the text on one of
>> the tabs will fall down exactly as Tommy has shown in his screenshot.  If I
>> scroll the tabs slowly, this doesn't happen.  Since I just noticed this
>> recently, I have not explored further.
>> -Arthur
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 8:33 PM David Carlson <
>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have also seen this oddity.  I have seen it in release 3.8 in Ubuntu
>>> 20.04.  It has appeared on the tab for a report, usually after reloading
>>> the report.  I think that it persists until I close the file and re-open
>>> it.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 6:57 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > For a few releases of GnuCash I have been seeing the account tabs
>>> rendered
>>> > strangely (the tab text and icons "floating" below the "tab area" of
>>> the
>>> > window).
>>> >
>>> > I'm attaching a screenshot. (I added a red box around the text to
>>> highlight
>>> > it.)
>>> >
>>> > I'm running GnuCash Version 4.4 (Build ID: Flathub 4.4-2) on Ubuntu
>>> 20.10,
>>> > and Ubuntu 18.04. HOWEVER I believe I have been seeing this since 3.8
>>> or so
>>> > in self-built GnuCash installations. I haven't mentioned it before
>>> because
>>> > at first I assumed it was because of something I did in creating my
>>> > self-compiled package, but this has persisted after I switched to
>>> Flathub.
>>> >
>>> > Is anyone else experiencing this? I find that the tabs spontaneously
>>> and
>>> > randomly get affected throughout the session, at first affecting a
>>> single
>>> > tab and then affecting more tabs.
>>> >
>>> > In composing this message I wondered how the problem changes if I move
>>> the
>>> > tabs to the side [Preferences --> Window --> Tab], but on the side they
>>> > look even worse, and when moving the tabs to the bottom of the window
>>> the
>>> > text of the tab is completely gone (presumably off the bottom edge of
>>> the
>>> > window and not visible).
>>> >
>>> > I just used Control-W to close a tab and then reopened the account and
>>> the
>>> > tab rendered correctly on the new attempt. SO for now I have a
>>> > workaround... well except for when it affects an ad-hoc report tab...
>>> >
>>> > I would think that if this was common, folks would be complaining
>>> because
>>> > it makes it hard to deal with a lot of tabs when you can't read them
>>> > easily.
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