I think both changes would be excellent. As another person has noted, most people expect GnuCash columns to behave like a spreadsheet, and the Description column trips them up. And if the Price column doesn't have to be there, removing it will be beneficial as well.
David T. On Jan 6, 2023, 6:42 AM, at 6:42 AM, john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >Users, > >There have been occasional complaints for many years about column width >sizing. See for e.g. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563588. >Most users seem to eventually get used to it, but I wonder if anybody >really likes it. > >The problem boils down to the auto-sizing behavior of the Description >column, which causes that column to grow or shrink when you adjust the >window's width, and to make a horizontal scrollbar appear when you >widen another column. Occasionally someone will complain about the >normally hidden price column because it's possible to catch its handle >and widen it when you mean to widen the balance column. > >It would be really easy to turn off autosizing on the Description field >and only a little work to figure out another way to handle the price >and ditch that column. Would anyone miss it? > >Regards, >John Ralls > >_______________________________________________ >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. _______________________________________________ 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.
