What distro to use for screendumps?

[Chris Good]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Good [mailto:chris.good at ozemail.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 5 August 2016 5:09 PM
> To: 'tommy.trussell at gmail.com' <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> Cc: 'gnucash-devel at gnucash.org' <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: What distro to use for screendumps?
>
> > > Message: 4
> > > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 09:16:29 -0500
> > > From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> > > To: Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
> > > Cc: GnuCash-Devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> > > Subject: Re: What distro to use for screendumps?
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> > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Chris Good
> <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Image
> > > > s_and_screenshots
> > > >
> > > > says:
> > > > It is better if you can use a theme similar to "clearlooks" for
> > > > linux in order to keep consistency with existing images.
> > > >
> > > > After I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04, my virtualbox gnome
> > > > flashback clearlooks-thenix theme titlebar is now Ubuntu black.
> > > >
> > > > I could not figure out, or find on the internet, how to change the
> > > > titlebar colour, so I tried to modify the Unity Radiance theme to
> > > > look like Clearlooks as I did find how to do that.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, I've now found that many of the graphics (like
> > > > checkboxes), use .png files that also have Ubuntu orange, and there
> > > > is not a simple mapping between the clearlooks and Ubuntu graphics
> > widgets.
> > > >
> > > > I'm thinking it would be easier to set up a new VM running whatever
> > > > distro is preferred for GnuCash screendumps.
> > > >
> > > > What distro and version and theme should that be?
> > > >
> > >
> > > It might be easier to use a VM -- for all sorts of reasons -- but I
> > > see there's a Clearlooks theme package for Ubuntu:
> > >
> > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/clearlooks-phenix-theme
> > >
> > > If you find the traditional Gnome desktop more convenient for this
> > > purpose, you might also try installing Ubuntu Mate (or another distro
> > > using the Mate
> > > desktop) or even just installing the mate-desktop package in Ubuntu.
> > > After installing other desktops, you can select which desktop you're
> > > using by clicking the small icon next to the password on the Ubuntu 
> > > login
> > screen.
> > >
> > > If you're comfortable configuring a distro in a VM for the purpose of
> > > documentation and testing, I would suggest trying Debian. As an Ubuntu
> > > user you will find it familiar in many ways.
> > >
> > > ------------------------------
>
> Hi Tommy,
>
> Thanks for the Debian suggestion - I'm giving it a go.
> I was using the xenial clearlooks-phenix-theme package and tried under the
> Unity,Gnome Flashback Compiz and Gnome Flashback Metacity desktops,
> but the black  titlebar with white text under both flashback dektops, and
> the orange graphics under Unity, are just not consistent enough with most
> of the screen images already in the documentation.
>
> I've installed Debian 8.5.0 and figured out how to use synaptic, and add the
> getdeb Ubuntu wily 15.10 repository (as Gnucash is not available from
> GetDeb for Ubuntu xenial 16.04 yet), but now I find I cannot install the
> getdeb GnuCash 2.6.12 due to 3 libraries that are too old:
> 	libaqbanking35 (only 34 is available from stable Debian repo)
> 	libaqbanking35-plugins (only 34 available)
> 	libktoblzcheck1v1 (only 1c2a available)
>
> Can anyone please tell me what is the latest available version of GnuCash
> available from getdeb which will run in Debian 8.5.0 without having to
> recompile some libraries?
> I'd prefer not to have to use GnuCash 2.6.4 from the Debian stable repos.
>
> Or can I somehow tell synaptic to ignore library version compatibility?
> I'm not intending to use this in anger, just for getting correctly themed
> screen dumps for the documentation updates I'm doing.
>
> Regards,
> Chris Good

I'll answer this myself (Synaptic is really quite nice... I should have just 
tried it).
The GnuCash 2.6.9 from GetDeb for Ubuntu vivid (15.04) installs in Debian 
8.5.0 with no dependency problems.
(I'll update the Gnucash wiki.)

Regards,
Chris Good
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