> On Jun 5, 2020, at 3:04 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > > Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 20:58:29 CEST schreef David Reiser: > > > On Jun 5, 2020, at 2:29 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be > > > <mailto:geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be>> > > > wrote:> > > > Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 19:55:29 CEST schreef David Reiser: > > > > > On Jun 5, 2020, at 1:26 PM, Geert Janssens > > > > > <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be <mailto:geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > > > > > <mailto:geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be > > > > > <mailto:geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > It will need a one time action to set these new defaults once you > > > > > start > > > > > using 4.0. I believe we have 6 layouts so that's 6 times you may see a > > > > > layout that doesn't suit you and you would have to fix it. > > > > > > > > In its current form, the user experience is waaaaaayyyy worse. My use of > > > > 3.903 (Mac OS 10.15.5) has been quite limited. For several cycles of > > > > opening Gnucash, the only account I had open was a single credit card > > > > account (+ the Accounts tab). I was working on getting aqbanking to > > > > work, > > > > and had to edit the environment file to get logging working. I didn’t > > > > immediately change the column widths because appearance wasn’t my > > > > primary > > > > goal. There now appears to be no way to reset the default column > > > > widths. > > > > If I close any credit card or checking account tab, opening any of them > > > > again gives me the enormously wide description column and the absurdly > > > > narrow transfer account column. > > > > > > > > So the ‘one time action’ appears to be unannounced and irreversible. > > > > Unless > > > > there’s a bug, you’re going to get 10 times as many complaints about > > > > register behavior as you’ve seen in the past. > > > > > > Did you actually select "Windows"->"Use as default for this register > > > group" after you changed the column widths to your satisfaction ? > > > > > > If you did and it still reverts to other column widths after reopening, > > > that would indeed be a bug. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Geert > > > > No I hadn’t. Thanks for the direction. I had looked in a couple places for a > > reset style command, but I was too focussed on ‘register’ rather than > > ‘window’. > > > Would another location the the menus make more sense to you ? We can still > move the commands around.
Having it be a direct menu command is more important than which menu it’s in. I think it fits better with the rest of the windows menu items than it would fit in another menu. Now that I know it’s there, it’s easy. > > > With the new column width setting arrangement, is it still necessary to keep > > the ’stretch another column before you can shrink Description width’ > > behavior? > > > Good question. Personally I have always considered this to be a user > experience wart, but so far nobody has decided to remove it. > > > If I remember correctly this was changed as part of the new register project, > but that never got stable enough to be included. > > Regards, > > Geert -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
