[GNC] Register column sizing

[Fred Tydeman]

I find that doing a double left click on each column header,
going from right to left works just fine.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 7:11 PM peterb <peterb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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