[GNC] Location of reports files

[Tom Route36]

Stephen,

For myself, I've known that the path to the file does show up when you 
hover over the filename in the list.  The problem is that doing that 
isn't obvious, especially to newer users.  As I suggested earlier, the 
full path should be "clearly and easily confirmed", and in a place where 
users would expect to find it -- not requiring a user-unfriendly "hover" 
motion in a drop down list.

I haven't found any such feature request in Bugzilla; but I think it's 
worthwhile to document such a request there.  It seems like it would be 
fairly straightforward to add; since obviously the info is being 
displayed via that hover motion already.  The only real added coding 
needed is to display the info in the Help-About box.

Anyway, even though it's low priority, it's documented now in Bugzilla 
as Bug 799773.  Maybe someday it can get added.

Tom


On 06/06/2026 09:54 AM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
> If I hover over the file in the most recent drop down list, then the 
> full path name is shown in the bottom bar of the window.  The #1 fi le 
> is the currently opened file.  #2 is the one most recently before, #3 
> & #4 likewise are ones previously worked.
>
> May not be where you want to see it, but it is available.
>
>
> On 6/6/26 00:37, Tom Route36 wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> I agree that knowing the path to the data file is useful -- in fact, 
>> I'd say that's one of the most important things to know. That's why I 
>> think that showing the full path to that file ought to be clearly and 
>> easily confirmed to the user.  I can't think of a more logical place 
>> to do that than in the Help->About window.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On 06/05/2026 09:20 PM, David Cousens wrote:
>>> GnuCash does list the name of the file you have open in the header 
>>> of the main window but it does not show the path to the file which 
>>> might be useful.
>>>
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