[GNC] More UI downgrades

[David Cousens]

Russel,

I'm running Linux Mint 21 with GnuCash 4.11 (built from tarball) installed and
have no editing problems at all with it. Many of the interface teatures are
determined by common libraries on which GnuCash depends particularly changes in
the GTK libraries rather than in the gnuCash coding itself. This can be beyond
the GnuCash developers control if changes in the underlying library produce
behaviour changes in GnuCash until it is noticed and they create a workaround
until the library is fixed. It may pay to check the installed runtime versions
against the dependency list in the release notes.
"dpkg -l | grep <string>" where string is the name or part of the name of a
package will usually list a package's installed version number. My Linux Mint
was upgraded from 20.3 and not a clean install and I usually have the latest
available versions of the dependencies installed as I build both the stable
version from tarball and the current maint and master development branches which
may account for why I don't see the grey box. All mouse actions and arrow keys
work fine in editing values on my system. Was this in the register for an
account or in a dialog box?

To track the problem down will involve trying to determine what is different
about your system from both mine or Adrien's (which should be a clean install of
LM 21 running in the VM).

David Cousens

On Sat, 2022-09-10 at 15:43 +0100, Russell Gadd wrote:
> It seems every time I upgrade there is some deterioration in user interface
> design. I upgrade to Gnucash when I upgrade my Linux system. I've just
> upgraded to Mint 21 which came with Guncash 4.8.
> 
> In this edition the edit of any amount now opens a grey box where the
> number in it is unresponsive to the mouse so if you try to swipe across the
> field to clear it it doesn't do anything. This is contrary to how all other
> software since time immemorial behaved. You have to use the keyboard to
> delete characters. How could the developers think this is an improvement?
> 
> While griping I will also mention the previous gripe I had. When
> reconciling I used to use the space bar (I think, it was a long time ago)
> to fill in the box and automatically move down to the next item. It made
> reconciling pretty slick. Then it was "upgraded" so it no longer moves
> down. You either have to use the mouse to fill in the boxes or hit the
> space bar followed by the down arrow. I complained at the time but the
> response was a justification which was impossible to understand, which I
> took to be obfuscation of the fact that it could not be justified. Now
> after such a long time how about reinstating the previous behaviour?
> 
> Otherwise great software. Many thanks for the dedication of the developers.
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