Message: 7 Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:04:41 +0200 From: Geert Janssens <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: David Reiser <[email protected]>, D <[email protected]>, mark sattolo <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Feedback on GnuCash 3.903 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 20:58:29 CEST schreef David Reiser: > > On Jun 5, 2020, at 2:29 PM, Geert Janssens > > <[email protected]> wrote:> Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 19:55:29 > > CEST schreef David Reiser: > > > > On Jun 5, 2020, at 1:26 PM, Geert Janssens > > > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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. > 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 Hi, I also would be unhappy with not being able to set per account register column widths. It's great there is a default by register type, but I go to a lot of trouble to set column widths exactly as I like, because I don't like to run GnuCash full screen so I can compare to other windows. One question I have is what happens with columns widths for accounts opened with 'Open with subaccounts'? Regards, Chris Good _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
