[Kmymoney] Ledger view column widths

[Michael Berger]

On Wednesday 24 August 2011 11:44:26 aga wrote:

Hi Allan,
if I remember correctly some people have already made their point on this and 
miss the feature of freely adjusting each column's  width according to their 
need.
It is no must but would be great to have this if implementation is not too 
much of an effort.

I'm using KMM4.5.3 /KDE 4.6.

In ledger view I can only reduce the window  to a point where all the columns 
with numbers remain fully apparent whereas the Detail column is being 
truncated to 38 characters or so (no line feed forced).

In Home view the behavior is similar with the advantage that the far most left 
column (say  Asset Accounts) will be displayed in more than one line thus not 
cutting off any of the text.

In Report  view I can e. g. reduce the total window width down to the point to 
have the left text column still fully apparent  plus a maximum of 5 month 
columns. Whatever else there is on the right is not shown.

Having said that I should like to join those who would like a change.


Michael

> When I display an investment in Ledger view, and shrink the window
> width to the point where the widest column contents start to disappear,
> it is the detail column that forst starts to go, even though several
> columns have lots of empty space that could be shrunk first.
> 
> It seems un-user-friendly to lose detail column detail before other
> columns are shrunk to lose empty space.
> 
> If that entails too much work, is there a fundamental reason why the
> user can't control his environment and adjust column width as he
> requires?  Instead of having to stretch the whole window, it might be
> acceptable to the user to stretch one column at the cost of shrinking a
> lesser important one, rather than the present arrangement of stretching
> the whole window.
> 
> Would anyone else like a change?
> 
> Allan
> 
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