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

[David Carlson]

Geert,

Wow, I had not noticed that the fully qualified file location appears in
the status bar as you describe!

Is there some documentation of the properties menu details discussion that
you mention?

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:19 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op woensdag 10 november 2021 15:34:39 CET schreef Stan Brown:
> > Why not change the MRU list to show location, not just file name. That
> > would avoid a lot of confusion for some of us.
> >
>
> While I know some applications show full path names in their MRU, I
> personally consider
> that suboptimal. File names can be very long which could result in very
> wide menus. To deal
> with that some applications put the MRU in a secondary menu and/or
> truncate the file
> names, which IMO partly reduces the usefulness of the full file name again.
>
> For that reason GnuCash has opted to show the full path location in the
> status bar when you
> hover your mouse over one of the history menu items.
>
> There has been some discussion on adding more details to the Properties
> menu in the past,
> but there was no consensus so it never materialized.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
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