Gtk3

[Robert Fewell]

OK, I have been tapping away with the following progress...
I downgraded a clone VM to Gtk+3.10.8 which successfully builds and runs
but I seem to of lost some stock images, not an issue as I can temporary
replace them
 but I can use it to make sure I have not included any newer functions.

In the original VM I have built and made some changes which can be seen at My
GitHub <https://github.com/Bob-IT/gnucash/tree/gtk3>
I have hopefully done the following but as normal there may be some
tweaks...
Replaced RC file with CSS file, name may need changing
The dense calendar now renders with a white background but can be set with
CSS
Changed the way tabs are done and now display correctly and fixed the width
updates
Changed most widgets that had a horizontal / vertical function to the new
equivalents.  These were simple function swaps I had in existing patch file.

I was going to look at the account edit dialogue but wanted to ask how much
do you want the glade files changed ?
Change the version and replace deprecated widgets ?

There are some further deprecated widgets that I will change if able to as
I come across them.

Bob

On 6 June 2017 at 09:54, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:

> On maandag 5 juni 2017 12:19:24 CEST Robert Fewell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was browsing the IRC logs and Geert mentioned his gtk3 branch, yes I
> have
> > pulled from there and recently updated my local version which was built
> > successfully.
> > I tend not to fiddle where other people are working as I would no doubt
> > just get in the way or slow down their efforts.
> >
> > If you would like me to look at some thing, just ask and I will have a
> > look, been looking at some schedule bugs but they can wait...
> >
> > What version of Gtk3 are these changes aimed at, my gtk3 development VM
> is
> > on 3.20.9 ?
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> I'm happy you're willing to jump in as well.
>
> As John already mentioned (and you could have read on IRC) I'm currently
> pretty occupied outside of the gnucash project.
>
> The Gtk3 version to target is 3.10. This is the most recent version on
> Ubuntu
> Trusty, which is the base OS for our Travis builds. Any other build
> platform
> we care about comes with a more recent version of gtk3.
>
> Feel free to clone my branch and make PR's against it.
>
> So far I've been mostly focused on
> 1. getting it to build and run (which should be accomplished)
> 2. Tweak the the register code to make it render properly
>
> For part 1 I needed do replace several Gtk2 functions that have been
> removed
> from Gtk3. The code wouldn't build otherwise. I only did minimal changes to
> get it to run. With that I mean I only replaced removed functions, not
> deprecated API.
>
> So here are a few opportunities to jump in:
> - The rendering of the custom calendar in the SX editor is wrong. I think
> the
> background isn't rendered, but there may be other things going on there.
> - Tab titles aren't rendering correctly. They are being rendered as "..."
> instead of the full (or partially elipsized) text. I suspect this has to do
> with Gtk3 new paradigm of minimal vs natural width, which we're not
> handling
> properly for the tab titles.
> - There may still be other visual issues I haven't spotted yet. If
> discovered
> these should get priority over the next point IMO.
> - There are lots of deprecated API warnings. Unfortunately Gtk3 has been
> moving target so there are new deprecations in almost every Gtk3 release. I
> propose to focus on those function calls which have been deprecated in Gtk3
> 3.10 or earlier.
>
> I will continue to focus on the register code and will communicate my
> progress
> when I get to it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>