[GNC-dev] Wiki Page: Configuration Locations
John Ralls
jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Oct 14 10:18:13 EDT 2018
> On Oct 14, 2018, at 6:03 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>
> Op zondag 14 oktober 2018 14:37:24 CEST schreef David T. via gnucash-devel:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Configurations Locations wiki page
>> (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
>> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations>), added in April
>> 2018, appears primarily to cover information for GnuCash version 3 and up.
>
> No, it also covers information for GnuCash version 2.6.x. It mentions
> specifically when data is only for the 2.x or 3.x series.
>
>> I am not expert enough to say this with authority, but numerous examples
>> (e.g., for the GTK aspects) suggest this.
>>
>> Given that earlier versions of GnuCash are still supported, would someone
>> with knowledge of this information be willing to add detail covering
>> earlier versions?
>>
> It seems that when I last edited this file I was mostly focused on gnucash
> specific files. The files at the gtk level are indeed only gtk 3 for the
> moment. This should be expanded for gtk2 (for which I only know of
> $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 and $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0-gnucash which I have now added to the
> list
That’s the legacy default. The preferred default is ~/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkrc; ~/.config can be set to something else with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. If XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set Gtk will look in each of them for a gtk-2.0/gtkrc as well.
Regards,
John Ralls
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