[GNC] Locking the side bar items

[Adrien Monteleone]

On 4/12/23 12:25 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) wrote:
> On 2023-04-12 09:29, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> Many browsers (if not all) long ago removed the 'close tab' button from
>> their toolbars because they had moved this function to each individual
>> tab. Perhaps it is time for GnuCash to do so as well?
> 
> Toolbars got individual close buttons long, long ago. They're in 2.6.19,
> even. I'm guessing that, as I've done also, you un-ticked the
> Preferences » Windows item to show those close buttons?

No, I have them on the tabs too and that's the button I use to close 
them. (I never use the one on the toolbar)

I haven't seen a *web browser* with a close tab button on the *main 
toolbar* in well over a decade was my point. (GnuCash still clearly has one)

I haven't touched Chrome or IE/Edge in some time, but the current 
versions of Firefox, Safari & Vivaldi do not have one, and it isn't even 
an option to add one when customizing the toolbar.

These are certainly the most-used 'tabbed interfaces' in existence (more 
so than spreadsheets though they preceded the browser implementation) 
and how they behave is likely how any new user of GnuCash would expect 
its own tabbed interface to behave. Some things just evolve or hang 
around long enough to become 'convention'. There should be good reasons 
for not following it.

>  (I haven't
>> installed 5.0 yet,but it's the same preference in 4.13 as in 2.6.19.)

Yes, the GnuCash preference for individual tab close buttons is still 
there in 5.0.

> 
> So the only change would be to remove the Close button from the top of
> the client portion of the GC window. ("Client portion", in Windows
> anyway, is the part inside the frame and the minimize/maximize/quit
> buttons.)

That, or re-label it. But really, just removing it would be okay too. 
(or as I mentioned, making it either/or - either on the toolbar, or on 
the tabs)

Regards,
Adrien