With the exception of the Description field automatically resizing itself to fit the register in the window width, I think GnuCash does size columns the same way spreadsheets do: You put the pointer on the right-hand divider in the header and drag it, and double-click in the header to fit the width to the widest entry in that column. What do you think spreadsheets do differently?
Regards, John Ralls > On Jan 6, 2023, at 5:37 AM, Thomas Forrester <tlforres...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I realize I'm answering a slightly different question, but I've never > understood why the GnuCash developers have never made column sizing (and > apparently hiding, too) work just like spreadsheets. We already invented > that wheel, and people are *really* accustomed to how it works, hence the > grumbling when it's discovered by new GnuCash users that it doesn't work that > way here. I think the vast majority would agree that the way spreadsheet > columns work is a very mature, and well understood "technology" (for lack of > a better word) that has become ubiquitous and intuitive. Note also that I > said "spreadsheets" rather than, say, "Excel" because the way spreadsheet > columns work isn't specific to any one spreadsheet program, and once again > speaks to how universal handling spreadsheet columns has become. > > My guess is that what you're asking is likely just fine, but isn't it just > another band-aid that really would be better ripped off in favor of > spreadsheet-like resizing logic? > > Tom > Thomas L. Forrester > Middleton, WI USA > > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 9:42 PM john <jra...@ceridwen.us > <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
