Greg,
Glad to hear you are liking 5.3! I originally played with 2.4.x way back
in the day, but never became a serious user until the midst of 2.6. The
app has improved significantly since then, with several very
'productivity oriented' improvements. I look forward to the continued
progress. I know the dev team is tiny, but quite dedicated, and all of
them are insanely patient, understanding, courteous, and helpful to the
rest of us mere mortals.
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Now, on to the errant installation:
I'm on a Mac, so I can't test this, but does Win10 have the ability to
'tab' separate windows as a function of the OS? (Mac does)
If this is the case, by 'tabs' do you mean "within the gnucash
interface" or do you mean "within the Windows OS"?
The first case is separate tabs like in a web browser or spreadsheet.
The second case is roughly similar, but the UI is a bit different and
each 'tab' is really a separate window of the app. (the window title bar
appears tabbed, or else a separate tab bar above/below it, but clearly
different from what GnuCash provides out of the box otherwise)
Of note, check "Preferences > Register Defaults > Other Defaults >
Register opens in new window", and make sure it is *not* checked.
(meaning you get 'GnuCash' tabs within the app - not separate windows,
tabbed together or not)
And if Win10 doesn't have this ability, consider having him play with
checking that preference as a workaround. (he'll have to manage separate
windows, but the ability to open more than 4 might be worth it, and
managing them with the keyboard, mouse, or the Windows menu which shows
a list of open windows of the app)
There is also "Preferences > Reports > Location > Report opens in a new
window", which will spawn a window instead of a tab for reports, which
can help further testing.
My next question would be, "Does the limitation of 5 total tabs also
include reports, a mix of reports and accounts, or just accounts?"
And then my only other question would be, "What is his screen resolution?"
My recommendation regardless of that answer (it is just for my
curiosity, as I know some really small screens might have issues - there
is a really reasonable design minimum, 800px I think) is to please file
a bug with all of the relevant details, especially anything that is
unique to that laptop that isn't working properly.
*Also Note - he shouldn't have to shorten account names. The built-in
solution should be to substitute ellipses for longer names past the
charcter preference limit. If that is not happening - definitely file a bug.
*Last Gasp — does he by chance have a custom UI stylesheet on that
machine? There are ways to directly alter UI elements via CSS, at least
as of 2.6. I'm not sure if that was possible in 2.4. But if so, an old
display rule might be at play causing havoc. See the Wiki about GTK
customizations: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Customizing_the_Appearance
Regards,
Adrien
On 8/29/23 11:14 AM, Greg wrote:
Hi Adrien, I called the other person last night, on the phone, and we
played with Edit/Preferences/Windows/Width, changing the character
spacing. He was elated that it "worked", not entirely. He had to
shorten the name on the accounts. But it gives him some ideas to play
with. I'll have to have him try to put the tabs vertically.
How version 2.4.13 started acting flaky with Windows 10 on both our
machines, suddenly, all the reports, just disappeared. Well, now we're
using 5.3. At least with mine, everything seems to work fine.
I'm very elated with version 5.3 on my machine. There are many new
features that work GREAT! Now, to get 5.3 properly working on his machine.
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