David, I don't get that if I right click, in fact I get nothing at all. However if I left click, i.e. select the file, it does what you say. Do you have your mouse settings set for a left handed person?
Alan A Holmes -----Original Message----- From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gnucash=alanaholmes.me...@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of David H Sent: 10 November 2021 19:14 To: Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>; Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: [GNC] RFE: GnuCash's File> Properties menubar item It's a little disconcerting that in Win 10, Gnucash 4.8, if you inadvertently right click (usually right click = context menu) on an mru entry it immediately closes gnucash and then re-opens initially with an "unsaved book" in the title and then repaints whatever registers were open one at a time. I would think this is a bug? Cheers David H. On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 03:49, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > Op woensdag 10 november 2021 18:39:02 CET schreef David Carlson: > > Geert, > > > > Wow, I had not noticed that the fully qualified file location > > appears in the status bar as you describe! > > > > :) > > > Is there some documentation of the properties menu details > > discussion > that > > you mention? > > > > I'm sorry, I don't remember off-hand where that discussion took place. > It could have been on the gnucash-devel mailing list or on a PR on > github or even on irc. > > Regards, > > Geert > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:19 AM Geert Janssens < > geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > > wrote: > > > Op woensdag 10 november 2021 15:34:39 CET schreef Stan Brown: > > > > Why not change the MRU list to show location, not just file name. > That > > > > would avoid a lot of confusion for some of us. > > > > > > While I know some applications show full path names in their MRU, > > > I personally consider that suboptimal. File names can be very long > > > which could result in very wide menus. To deal with that some > > > applications put the MRU in a secondary menu and/or truncate the > > > file names, which IMO partly reduces the usefulness of the full > > > file name again. > > > > > > For that reason GnuCash has opted to show the full path location > > > in the status bar when you hover your mouse over one of the > > > history menu items. > > > > > > There has been some discussion on adding more details to the > > > Properties menu in the past, but there was no consensus so it > > > never materialized. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Geert > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-user mailing list > > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > > ----- > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
