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 large portion of the GnuCash controlling code is not separate
from the viewing code. Perhaps Gnumeric has the same issue. This is
likely a manifestation of that problem for at least one if not both of
those apps.
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That aside, I'm glad GnuCash doesn't make me enter a column size in
measuring units! (as *if* a spreadsheet will always be printed)
I could be reading wrong, but I don't think John was suggesting dropping
the ability to double-click to auto-fit columns to data, but rather
dropping the rubber-band auto-size effect for the Description column.
That would leave us with drag to size (like spreadsheets) or auto-fit.
(which spreadsheets can now do but taking more clicks)
Regards,
Adrien
On 1/6/23 7:37 AM, Thomas Forrester 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?
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