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

[Alan A Holmes]

David,

I don't get that if I right click, in fact I get nothing at all. However if
I left click, i.e. select the file, it does what you say. Do you have your
mouse settings set for a left handed person?


Alan A Holmes

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user
<gnucash-user-bounces+gnucash=alanaholmes.me.uk at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of
David H
Sent: 10 November 2021 19:14
To: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>; Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: [GNC] RFE: GnuCash's File> Properties menubar item

It's a little disconcerting that in Win 10, Gnucash 4.8, if you
inadvertently right click (usually right click = context menu) on an mru
entry it immediately closes gnucash and then re-opens initially with an
"unsaved book" in the title and then repaints whatever registers were open
one at a time.  I would think this is a bug?

Cheers David H.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 03:49, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> 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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