Hi Adrien,
I offered him several times, I would install it "correctly." No, he
insists on doing it himself. He figures, if I can do it, then he can do
it. But, thank you for giving him more ideas to try.
We're both still working on a custom "Weekly Payroll Report" that I
designed and created with 2.4.13, but it disappeared. It worked great!
It was a fantastic template - all you had to do was change the date each
week. I showed (taught) him about the style sheets. I also showed him
about the accounts tab under options in the transaction reports.
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Yes, Windows 10 will tab. However, I am talking about the separate
account register tabs displayed within GNUcash, that you can display:
top, bottom, left, or right. (Which gives him more options)
His screen resolution is ????x1080, My screen resolution is 4K
(3840x2160) with NVIDIA display. Does that matter?
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Greg
On 8/29/2023 11:37 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Greg,
Glad to hear you are liking 5.3! I originally played with 2.4.x way
back in the day, but never became a serious user until the midst of
2.6. The app has improved significantly since then, with several very
'productivity oriented' improvements. I look forward to the continued
progress. I know the dev team is tiny, but quite dedicated, and all of
them are insanely patient, understanding, courteous, and helpful to
the rest of us mere mortals.
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Now, on to the errant installation:
I'm on a Mac, so I can't test this, but does Win10 have the ability to
'tab' separate windows as a function of the OS? (Mac does)
If this is the case, by 'tabs' do you mean "within the gnucash
interface" or do you mean "within the Windows OS"?
The first case is separate tabs like in a web browser or spreadsheet.
The second case is roughly similar, but the UI is a bit different and
each 'tab' is really a separate window of the app. (the window title
bar appears tabbed, or else a separate tab bar above/below it, but
clearly different from what GnuCash provides out of the box otherwise)
Of note, check "Preferences > Register Defaults > Other Defaults >
Register opens in new window", and make sure it is *not* checked.
(meaning you get 'GnuCash' tabs within the app - not separate windows,
tabbed together or not)
And if Win10 doesn't have this ability, consider having him play with
checking that preference as a workaround. (he'll have to manage
separate windows, but the ability to open more than 4 might be worth
it, and managing them with the keyboard, mouse, or the Windows menu
which shows a list of open windows of the app)
There is also "Preferences > Reports > Location > Report opens in a
new window", which will spawn a window instead of a tab for reports,
which can help further testing.
My next question would be, "Does the limitation of 5 total tabs also
include reports, a mix of reports and accounts, or just accounts?"
And then my only other question would be, "What is his screen
resolution?"
My recommendation regardless of that answer (it is just for my
curiosity, as I know some really small screens might have issues -
there is a really reasonable design minimum, 800px I think) is to
please file a bug with all of the relevant details, especially
anything that is unique to that laptop that isn't working properly.
*Also Note - he shouldn't have to shorten account names. The built-in
solution should be to substitute ellipses for longer names past the
charcter preference limit. If that is not happening - definitely file
a bug.
*Last Gasp — does he by chance have a custom UI stylesheet on that
machine? There are ways to directly alter UI elements via CSS, at
least as of 2.6. I'm not sure if that was possible in 2.4. But if so,
an old display rule might be at play causing havoc. See the Wiki about
GTK customizations:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Customizing_the_Appearance
Regards,
Adrien
On 8/29/23 11:14 AM, Greg wrote:
Hi Adrien, I called the other person last night, on the phone, and we
played with Edit/Preferences/Windows/Width, changing the character
spacing. He was elated that it "worked", not entirely. He had to
shorten the name on the accounts. But it gives him some ideas to
play with. I'll have to have him try to put the tabs vertically.
How version 2.4.13 started acting flaky with Windows 10 on both our
machines, suddenly, all the reports, just disappeared. Well, now
we're using 5.3. At least with mine, everything seems to work fine.
I'm very elated with version 5.3 on my machine. There are many new
features that work GREAT! Now, to get 5.3 properly working on his
machine.
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