[Kmymoney-devel] Ledger View Column Widths

[Alvaro Soliverez]

>From when I had to work on it during the porting days, I can tell the
ledger view is full of weird widgets. It needs a revamp to remove all
the crust (we even found KDE 2.x code in there).
But... it is the most complicated view in the app, so it will take a
lot of dev time that we don't have at the moment.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2013.06.20 19:16, aga wrote:
>>
>> Is there a major reason why the column widths behave the way they do? It
>> doesn't seem very logical to me at the moment, or in fact ever.
>>
>> A slight silly, but not untypical, example is that if I choose to use a
>> complex system for check numbers, such that the whole number is not visible,
>> the only way I have available is to stretch the whole window. However, even
>> that doesn't help, as the whole of the increase is grabbed by the Details
>> column.  I accept that it is likely that that column is going to need to be
>> the widest.  Then, why are the Payment and Deposit columns twice the width
>> of the Balance column, when that column may be likely to have the greatest
>> value?  Ditto for the Date.
>>
>> Why not allow the user to set the column widths according to *his* needs?
>
> Yes, I've had  similar wonders.  Is it perhaps simply an unintended
> consequence of the particular widget used?  Could changing the widget, or
> maybe even a more recent update to the widget, allow column resizing?
>>
>>
>> </rant>
>
> I missed the opening <rant> :-)
>
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