Also very traditional.

The downside is that it's not terribly discoverable. What can we do to make it 
more so?

It would be nice to put it in the progress-bar code so that it is available by 
default for all processes that use the progress bar. Check & Repair isn't used 
much but there are plenty of reports that take awhile on a large book and it 
would be nice to be able to stop the report generating so one can get to the 
options dialog and set up the report one really wants.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Sep 9, 2020, at 9:46 AM, Jean Laroche <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Wow, that's super nice!
> J.
> 
> On 9/9/20 9:43 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
>> See the first commit in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/784 -- with 
>> it you can abort scrub simply by pressing Escape.
>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 12:19 am jean laroche, <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>    Christopher Lam suggested that the scrubbing process should be
>>    cancellable via a button (for context, we recently fixed a bug that
>>    could cause a crash when quitting GC during a scrub operation).
>>    I took a look at the code and as usual, it's not as easy as I would
>>    have
>>    hoped: the backend part (making the scrub stop) is very easy, as the
>>    abort mechanism is already in place. Adding an abort button in the
>>    right
>>    place on the relevant windows isn't as easy (see for example how the
>>    progress bar is created/handled, it's fairly convoluted to say the
>>    least).
>>    Two questions:
>>    - Do we really think it's worth the effort given how often scrubbing is
>>    used, and given that scrubbing only takes long on accounts with many
>>    transactions or books with many accounts?
>>    - If we think it's worth the effort, does one of you devs know how to
>>    easily add the abort button on the main window (and probably the
>>    account
>>    transactions window as well)? If so, we could split the task: you could
>>    add the right window, and I'd take it from there.
>>    Personally I doubt it's worth the effort...
>>    Jean
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