[GNC] Register column sizing

[David H]

Yes, working right to left is the way to do it, generally it works like a
charm once you get used to it, I find it just as easy sometimes to left
click on the column divider and move it left or right as necessary.
Sometimes I still have to click on the right hand border of the autosized
Description column and pull it leftwards for a cm or 2 and let it go to get
it to resize tho :-)

I find myself generally using Gnucash on the left side of my screen with a
browser window open to my bank/s on the right with both taking up the full
screen trying to make sure everything has been entered and reconciles with
Gnucash.  Personally I'd really like the text columns like Description,
Transfer, Notes (are there others ?) to automatically all slim down
proportionately when I click on the right Gnucash window border and shrink
the window width and similarly expand proportionately when I expand the
window again :-)  What happens at present is that the Description column
shrinks down but I seem to just end up losing all or most of the
reconciliation and amount columns and then I also start losing most of the
Transfer column as well. So then I have to manually shrink the column width
of the Transfer column to get the amounts showing again.

Not sure what you can do about users shrinking down and losing the
Reconciliation column etc as per MAF's earlier reply.  If that happens to
me I can usually manage with a bit of trial and error to click on the very
slightly thicker column divider where the Reconciliation column was and
expand it again.  Maybe a button on the toolbar to "Unhide Columns" that
are zero width, then again perhaps MAF's idea of a minimum column width
would work and be easier to implement.

I wasn't sure what John's comment about the hidden price column was all
about until I managed to expand a hidden "Rate" column on the right of my
Registers - I think this was mentioned a year or two back ?

Regards David H.


On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 13:16, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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