[GNC] Locking the side bar items

[Gyle McCollam]

You're very welcome, but as Stan correctly pointed out that doesn't solve the "problem" of the toolbar icon closing a tab when a lot of people ass/u/me that it will close the program.



Thank You,

Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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Subject: Re: [GNC] Locking the side bar items

Gyles, sir, you win the cigar (or prize of preference).
What's annoying is I looked there, but just didn't see it.
Thank you so much.

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 15:40, Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com<mailto:gmccollam at live.com>> wrote:
You can remove the "X" on the tabs to prevent accidental closing.  Under Edit/Preference/Windows and the section labeled Tabs.  Just click on box to remove the check on "Show close on notebook tabs".  Then you shouldn't be able to close accidentally.


Thank You,

Gyle McCollam

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Subject: Re: [GNC] Locking the side bar items

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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