[GNC] Locking the side bar items

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 11 23:40:37 EDT 2023


Honestly, the button could be removed altogether in my opinion. The close "X" on tabs is pretty standard in other apps, and has the benefit of being a direct action that most users understand intuitively. 

⁣David T. ​

On Apr 12, 2023, 1:07 AM, at 1:07 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>I agree, the button could be more precise in its label.
>
>The tool tip in the status bar on hovering that button says, "close the
>
>currently active page".
>
>The functionality of that button and the entire toolbar (the UI really)
>
>is also covered in the Manual.
>
>I'd say this is a, "read the manual" sort of problem and GnuCash is 
>working as intended.
>
>Regards,
>Adrien
>
>On 4/11/23 4:12 PM, Gyle McCollam wrote:
>> The button in the toolbar should say "Close Tab", that would make it
>clearer.  In windows, the OP should get used to closing Gnucash with
>the "X" in the upper right corner.  As for the tabs, under
>Edit/Preferences/Windows and then the heading Tabs you can select to
>put a "Close Button" actually an "X" on each tab to close that tab.
>That way you don't have to memorize Crtl+W or Alt+F4, not that it is
>that difficult.
>
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