I updated to 2.6.1

[David Carlson]

On 2/28/2014 5:54 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2014 20:06:11 Dean Gibson wrote:
>> Unless I did something wrong, I find the new GUI awful (ugly, jerky,
>> and slow), to the point that I went back to 2.4.15, and found that it
>> now had the new GUI!  I found that the installation of 2.6.1 had
>> added .gtkrc-2.0 to my home (Windows) directory, and deleted it, so
>> I'm back to a nice, smooth, fast GUI.
>>
> That's a surprising statement! I wish I knew what the contents of the .gtkrc-2.0 file was 
> before you deleted it. That may have given us a good hint on another possible cause of ui 
> slowness experienced by several users on Windows.
>
> But what is even more odd is that GnuCash does not install a .gtkrc-2.0 file by itself that I'm 
> aware of. It is normally created only by running the theme selection tool. In fact I even tried 
> to reinstall gnucash 2.6.1 on my Windows XP test system after removing an empty .gktrc-2.0 
> file. It didn't return automatically.
>  
>> I see that there's a way to set the GUI in 2.6.1, but there must be at
>> least 50 themes.  I just want the old one, if possible.  If not
>> possible, I'll stay with 2.4.15.
>>
> That tool was already available in GnuCash 2.4. It's not new.
>
> Geert
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I have 2.6.0 installed on a Win XP Virtual machine.  I have copied the
gtkrg-2.0 Gnucash file. I will try to attach it to this e-mail, but if
it gets stripped out before this message is posted, I will need
instructions on a way to send it.  I can use IRC if necessary.

David C
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