[GNC] RFE: GnuCash's File> Properties menubar item

Glenn Fowler gfowler1 at outlook.com
Wed Nov 10 09:45:43 EST 2021


Hi David,

Wouldn't it make more sense to keep file information where it belongs, in
the file manager? My opinion is that would be out of the scope of GnuCash
and give it feature creep.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 8:36 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For some other programs' files the equivalent menubar item, when applied to
> a data file shows several basic properties under the general tab such as
> Filename, Type, Default program to open the file, File Location, Modified,
> Accessed and Size.  With some file managers and for some programs and
> filetypes there is much more information about the particular datafile.
>
> I do see these properties when I click on a filetype ".Gnucash" in a
> filemanager.
>
> I would also like to see the same information when I click on the menubar
> of an open data file, particularly location and size.  This would be
> extremely useful when there may be several data files with identical or
> very similar filenames in the MRU list.
>
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