[GNC] Issues

[Greg]

Hi  Adrien,

I offered him several times, I would install it "correctly." No, he 
insists on doing it himself.  He figures, if I can do it, then he can do 
it.  But, thank you for giving him more ideas to try.

We're both still working on a custom "Weekly Payroll Report" that I 
designed and created with 2.4.13, but it disappeared.  It worked great! 
It was a fantastic template - all you had to do was change the date each 
week.  I showed (taught) him about the style sheets. I also showed him 
about the accounts tab under options in the transaction reports.


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Yes, Windows 10 will tab.  However, I am talking about the separate 
account register tabs displayed within GNUcash, that you can display: 
top, bottom, left, or right. (Which gives him more options)

His screen resolution is ????x1080, My screen resolution is 4K 
(3840x2160) with NVIDIA display.  Does that matter?

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Greg

On 8/29/2023 11:37 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Glad to hear you are liking 5.3! I originally played with 2.4.x way 
> back in the day, but never became a serious user until the midst of 
> 2.6. The app has improved significantly since then, with several very 
> 'productivity oriented' improvements. I look forward to the continued 
> progress. I know the dev team is tiny, but quite dedicated, and all of 
> them are insanely patient, understanding, courteous, and helpful to 
> the rest of us mere mortals.
>
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>
> Now, on to the errant installation:
>
> I'm on a Mac, so I can't test this, but does Win10 have the ability to 
> 'tab' separate windows as a function of the OS? (Mac does)
>
> If this is the case, by 'tabs' do you mean "within the gnucash 
> interface" or do you mean "within the Windows OS"?
>
> The first case is separate tabs like in a web browser or spreadsheet.
>
> The second case is roughly similar, but the UI is a bit different and 
> each 'tab' is really a separate window of the app. (the window title 
> bar appears tabbed, or else a separate tab bar above/below it, but 
> clearly different from what GnuCash provides out of the box otherwise)
>
> Of note, check "Preferences > Register Defaults > Other Defaults > 
> Register opens in new window", and make sure it is *not* checked. 
> (meaning you get 'GnuCash' tabs within the app - not separate windows, 
> tabbed together or not)
>
> And if Win10 doesn't have this ability, consider having him play with 
> checking that preference as a workaround. (he'll have to manage 
> separate windows, but the ability to open more than 4 might be worth 
> it, and managing them with the keyboard, mouse, or the Windows menu 
> which shows a list of open windows of the app)
>
> There is also "Preferences > Reports > Location > Report opens in a 
> new window", which will spawn a window instead of a tab for reports, 
> which can help further testing.
>
> My next question would be, "Does the limitation of 5 total tabs also 
> include reports, a mix of reports and accounts, or just accounts?"
>
> And then my only other question would be, "What is his screen 
> resolution?"
>
> My recommendation regardless of that answer (it is just for my 
> curiosity, as I know some really small screens might have issues - 
> there is a really reasonable design minimum, 800px I think) is to 
> please file a bug with all of the relevant details, especially 
> anything that is unique to that laptop that isn't working properly.
>
> *Also Note - he shouldn't have to shorten account names. The built-in 
> solution should be to substitute ellipses for longer names past the 
> charcter preference limit. If that is not happening - definitely file 
> a bug.
>
> *Last Gasp — does he by chance have a custom UI stylesheet on that 
> machine? There are ways to directly alter UI elements via CSS, at 
> least as of 2.6. I'm not sure if that was possible in 2.4. But if so, 
> an old display rule might be at play causing havoc. See the Wiki about 
> GTK customizations: 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Customizing_the_Appearance
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 8/29/23 11:14 AM, Greg wrote:
>> Hi Adrien, I called the other person last night, on the phone, and we 
>> played with Edit/Preferences/Windows/Width, changing the character 
>> spacing. He was elated that it "worked", not entirely.  He had to 
>> shorten the name on the accounts.  But it gives him some ideas to 
>> play with. I'll have to have him try to put the tabs vertically.
>>
>> How version 2.4.13 started acting flaky with Windows 10 on both our 
>> machines, suddenly, all the reports, just disappeared. Well, now 
>> we're using 5.3.  At least with mine, everything seems to work fine.
>>
>> I'm very elated with version 5.3 on my machine. There are many new 
>> features that work GREAT! Now, to get 5.3 properly working on his 
>> machine.
>
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