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

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Wed Nov 10 12:46:13 EST 2021


Op woensdag 10 november 2021 18:39:02 CET schreef 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?
> 

I'm sorry, I don't remember off-hand where that discussion took place. It could have been on 
the gnucash-devel mailing list or on a PR on github or even on irc.

Regards,

Geert

> 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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