GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 699695
Register2: Column width is larger than in register1 and larger than what is needed for the content data
Last modified: 2018-06-29 23:15:47 UTC
Created attachment 243326 [details] The old register look The min width of the columns date/Buchungsdatum, Num/Nummer and R/Abgl are to large
Created attachment 243327 [details] The new register look
This should be fixed in bug 700125. I have reduced the default number of characters for the column default sizing. This is also dependent on whether the column has a sort arrow on it and may also be influenced if there is a need for the translation string to be changed.
I have applied the mentioned patch. It's not really clear to me what the problem was exactly, so I can't tell if it got fixed satisfactorily. Norbert, when 2.5.2 will be released in 10 days, can you verify if the issue is fixed for you and report back to this bug ? Thank you.
I tried Version 22992. There is no change. But I think it is the new design. The new coloumn min width is now name+space for the sort arrow. In the old version you could resize it to 1 (or less) characters. You can see it on the attachments.
As stated above, I think this is part due to the translations not being done as the reconcile column has gone from J to Abgl and Datum to Buchungsdatum so if these were translated properly the columns would reduce. They will not the same as before as you now have the sort arrows but they should be smaller. Bob
I'd second the original post here. The register2 makes the columns wider than before, and that is not nice. It would be good to find a solution that doesn't depend on the column heading strings to be short enough - there can always be translated words that are longer than the English abbreviation. For example, I couldn't find out so far where the "Buchungsdatum" string for the date column comes from - if it's the translation for "Posted Date", the translation is fully correct and there is no abbreviation possible. Please make it possible to make the columns shorter than the heading strings. This was possible with register1 and needs to be possible with register2, too.
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