--On November 16, 2015 at 7:54:05 PM -0800 John Ralls
<[email protected]> wrote:
Ugh. UI design always makes my head hurt.
Me too, that's one reason I spent most of my life writing drivers,
kernel software, and other stuff without much of a UI.
My original thought was that any multi-commodity transaction in the
current working set (we’re talking about master here, and the goal
is to retrieve from the database only the most recent n transactions
where n is some multiple of the number that would be visible.
You’re right that scrolling could move a multi-currency transaction
in and out of the working set and that the view changes would be a
bit disconcerting.
Making it an explicit option would indeed fix the view-switching
problem but might make the user experience a bit confusing: If
“show value & price” is set then the user doesn’t get the
transfer dialog, but if it isn’t she does. We could do the view
switch on clicking the split button for a multi-currency txn, but
then the creation use-case will still have that disconcerting
“pop” when the user selects an account with a different commodity.
I guess making it a user selection is the least evil. Rather than an
option I think it needs a toggle, at least in the View menu and maybe
a toolbar button like Split View.
I was thinking about a View menu toggle. I was using the term "option"
in the generic sense, not as an actual option in the options dialog.
Having a toolbar button too might be a good idea although the toolbar
is getting pretty big already. This really is a lot like the Split
View choice.
Mike
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