On 4/12/23 10:03 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
On 2023-04-12 07:32, G R Hewitt wrote:
I agree with others that the 'Close' button could be moved, or
better still done away with, I think it serves no useful purpose.
Perhaps change it to 'Quit GnuCash'

I would not support the latter. There's already a _standard_ mouse click
to quit GnuCash; it's the X at the top right of the window, which is
standard for programs in Microsoft Windows. We don't need to waste
screen real estate on a second button to do the same thing.

Not only that, the toolbar button is not duplicative of the close button on the window. Its function is *not* to close the app, but to close the active tab.

I would support changing its label to 'Close Tab' for clarity.

Many browsers (if not all) long ago removed the 'close tab' button from their toolbars because they had moved this function to each individual tab. Perhaps it is time for GnuCash to do so as well? Folks will generally expect apps that manage tabs to work in a similar fashion to each other. If there is a good reason not to, so be it, but I can't see the harm in removing the button entirely or making it optional like the close buttons for the individual tabs. (or perhaps make that existing option an either/or - either put the close button on the toolbar *or* the individual tabs, and set the default to individual tabs.)

(I would assume that the standard close button is also present in
GnuCash in Linux and MacOS.)

Yes, both have standard window/app close buttons (and the same keyboard shortcut) by default.


Regards,
Adrien

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