[GNC] Register column sizing

[peterb]

I have been using Gnucash for many years and I still never know exactly
what's going to happen when I try to resize a column. It is 120%
infuriating - at least to me! - so I'm in favor of trying to make the
behavior more sensible.

It feels fundamentally weird to me to privilege the description column that
way, because it means I constantly end up in situations where space is
being added to the description column, which in the common case has plenty
of room, and in the meantime my debit and credit columns are cutting off
half the numbers in them.

-Peter

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:42 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Users,
>
> There have been occasional complaints for many years about column width
> sizing. See for e.g. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563588.
> Most users seem to eventually get used to it, but I wonder if anybody
> really likes it.
>
> The problem boils down to the auto-sizing behavior of the Description
> column, which causes that column to grow or shrink when you adjust the
> window's width, and to make a horizontal scrollbar appear when you widen
> another column. Occasionally someone will complain about the normally
> hidden price column because it's possible to catch its handle and widen it
> when you mean to widen the balance column.
>
> It would be really easy to turn off autosizing on the Description field
> and only a little work to figure out another way to handle the price and
> ditch that column. Would anyone miss it?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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