[GNC] Locking the side bar items

[G R Hewitt]

Thank you all for your considered comments and suggestions, from which I
can see that I failed to explain myself adequately, so apologies there.

What I want to be able to do is to ‘lock’ the tabs I open so that they
cannot be closed with out first being ‘unlocked’.

Perhaps a little padlock icon that would replace the ‘X’ when locked -
similar to programs that use ‘layers’, like Photoshop for example.

In this way one would be unable to accidentality close a tab and perhaps
lose settings.


Regards, GH

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 04:41, David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> 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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