[GNC] UI Problem with 4.14

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 7 Dec 2023 13:46:19 -0600 adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net wrote:

> 
> The Description column always fills the remaining width of the window.
> 
> You adjust the other columns to your liking, then reduce the window 
> width to shrink the Description column. Otherwise, you can after setting 
> the other columns, drag the right handle of the Description column to 
> the left and let it bounce back to fill the remaining space.

So how do a make the columns to the right of the Description column wider?  Do 
I drag them off the window?  This actually makes no sense.

> 
> If you still find Description longer than you want, and you don't want 
> to narrow the width of the window, adjust the other columns accordingly. 
> I usually adjust the Account column wider in such cases.

OK, I am totally confused. How do I make a column to the right of the
Description wider *without* draging the right handle of the Description column
to the left? I don't want to *shrink* the columns to the right of the
Description, I want to make one of them wider. How does one do that without
shrinking the Description column? Where does the space come from? How does one
add space? What is happening is that there is some total window width W, which
is the sum of widths of all of the columns (plus the margin space). If one
wants to make some column Cx wider, some other collumn Cy needs to shrink, but
this is impossible if the only column that is "shrinkable" (Cy) is the
Description column. I can make columns to the *left* of the Description wider
or narrower, but not the columns to the right of the Description. Any attempt
to make any of them wider ends up making them all narrower until eventually
one (or more) of them end up with a width of 0. As far as I am concerned, this
is a bug (and a serious one at that). This makes no sense.

I have the source code and will go hunting...

> 
> This is nothing new in 4.14, GnuCash has worked this way for many many 
> years.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 12/7/23 12:57 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I have a UI problem (failure?) running GNC 4.14 under Ubuntu 22.04. I tried to
> > shrink the Description column (make it narrower) in the general ledger display
> > of an account, but Description column only wants to get wider. Draging the
> > right edge to the left just "bounces" further to the right, causing the
> > columns to the right of the Description column to shrink. How do I fix this? I
> > tried exiting and restarting, but the column widths seem to be "remembered"
> > somewhere (where?).
> > 
> 
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