Yes, working right to left is the way to do it, generally it works like a
charm once you get used to it, I find it just as easy sometimes to left
click on the column divider and move it left or right as necessary.
Sometimes I still have to click on the right hand border of the autosized
I find that doing a double left click on each column header,
going from right to left works just fine.
On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 7:11 PM peterb wrote:
> I have been using Gnucash for many years and I still never know exactly
> what's going to happen when I try to resize a column. It is 120%
>
I have been using Gnucash for many years and I still never know exactly
what's going to happen when I try to resize a column. It is 120%
infuriating - at least to me! - so I'm in favor of trying to make the
behavior more sensible.
It feels fundamentally weird to me to privilege the description
I do find that when I move between computers with different display
resolutions, if I copy the user preferences, then I have to fiddle with
widths on the new machine. If the defaults were good enough so that there
was no need to port over the column widths, there would still be other
settings
CAn I suggest that columns are given a notional minimum width, to stop the
problem of the left and right dividers overlapping. say 5 or 10px or
something, it you are thiking of diddling around with that area of code?
"vanishing" columns seems to be another similar FAQ over the years.
Maf.
To be honest, John, it's been a minute since I bothered to think about it.
For the most part, I guess I just leave columns alone. I don't recall the
last time I've had to resize a column, and maybe that speaks kindly of the
width-memory the columns have at this point. Or not. Like I say, I
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
That's a good question and one I've had myself.
It is even more perplexing when I discovered the registers are based on
code from the Gnumeric spreadsheet app.
My wild and very limited understanding guess is:
That part of the UI didn't get borrowed from Gnumeric, maybe for a good
reason. A
Another vote in favor of this change to the column width handling,
Best wishes,
Will
On Jan 6, 2023, at 08:45, Matthew Forbis via gnucash-user
wrote:
I'm fully in agreement of making the description column behave like all the
others.
Matt
On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 09:41:58 PM CST,
I'm fully in agreement of making the description column behave like all the
others.
Matt
On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 09:41:58 PM CST, john
wrote:
Users,
There have been occasional complaints for many years about column width sizing.
See for e.g.
I’m new to GnuCash so I admit I’m not sure I fully understand the question’s
impacts.
I have figured out I can resize each column manually, but what does confuse me
is why (at least on macOS) a double click (as opposed to a right-click)
activates what I believe you’re referring to as
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,
On 1/6/2023 12:46 AM, David Carlson wrote:
I feel that the register column sizing is complicated by the fact that the
register view is constrained by the requirement that the data input window
has to appear to blend in to the rest of the register view. If the data
input area was separated from
Maybe a setting in Preferences -> Register Defaults to toggle the option?
On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 8:32 AM Fross, Michael wrote:
> Hi John. I enjoy the ability to double click column headers to auto-size
> them. I hope this is not impacted.
>
> For description autosizing, it did take a little
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
Hi John. I enjoy the ability to double click column headers to auto-size
them. I hope this is not impacted.
For description autosizing, it did take a little getting used to, but I
like it and use it. I manage the other columns, mostly by double clicking
the title, and then let the description
I don't play with it too often these days, but if I do, I won't miss the
auto-size or accidentally exposing the price column.
Regards,
Adrien
On 1/5/23 9:40 PM, john wrote:
It would be really easy to turn off autosizing on the Description field and
only a little work to figure out another
I feel that the register column sizing is complicated by the fact that the
register view is constrained by the requirement that the data input window
has to appear to blend in to the rest of the register view. If the data
input area was separated from the register view each of the areas could be
Hi,
I think it would be an improvement to get rid of autosizing because of the
recurring issues people have with it and it wouldn't affect those users
that do know how autosizing works by taking it away.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:40 PM john wrote:
> Users,
>
> There have been occasional
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
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