On 4/12/23 12:25 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) wrote:
On 2023-04-12 09:29, Adrien Monteleone wrote: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?Toolbars got individual close buttons long, long ago. They're in 2.6.19, even. I'm guessing that, as I've done also, you un-ticked the Preferences » Windows item to show those close buttons?
No, I have them on the tabs too and that's the button I use to close them. (I never use the one on the toolbar)
I haven't seen a *web browser* with a close tab button on the *main toolbar* in well over a decade was my point. (GnuCash still clearly has one)
I haven't touched Chrome or IE/Edge in some time, but the current versions of Firefox, Safari & Vivaldi do not have one, and it isn't even an option to add one when customizing the toolbar.
These are certainly the most-used 'tabbed interfaces' in existence (more so than spreadsheets though they preceded the browser implementation) and how they behave is likely how any new user of GnuCash would expect its own tabbed interface to behave. Some things just evolve or hang around long enough to become 'convention'. There should be good reasons for not following it.
(I haven'tinstalled 5.0 yet,but it's the same preference in 4.13 as in 2.6.19.)
Yes, the GnuCash preference for individual tab close buttons is still there in 5.0.
So the only change would be to remove the Close button from the top of
the client portion of the GC window. ("Client portion", in Windows
anyway, is the part inside the frame and the minimize/maximize/quit
buttons.)
That, or re-label it. But really, just removing it would be okay too. (or as I mentioned, making it either/or - either on the toolbar, or on the tabs)
Regards, Adrien _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
