[GNC-dev] Building 3.4 on Mint 18.3

[Jacob Larsen]

Hi Geert

I'm starting a backup now to prepare for upgrade, I don't think I will 
do more in this direction. I tried this in both Ubuntu Mate 18.04 and 
Mint 19.1 in VMs, and both looked fine. So just backing up and running a 
long overdue upgrade instead.

I'm pretty sure Mate runs on X11 though.

/Jacob

On 24/02/2019 22.49, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
>
> I don't think the missing gwengui-gtk3 package is related. We anticipated it
> would not be available on several distros by the time gnucash 3 would be
> released. So if that package is not found, gnucash  will be built with an
> internal copy of this package. So regardless of whether your distro ships it,
> gnucash will have access to a copy.
> In addition, gwengui-gtk3 is only used for online banking stuff. It should
> have no influence whatsoever on the summary bar on that Account hierarchy tab.
>
> I have not really much advice to give here as I'm not using Mint. If you wish
> to experiment a bit further, you may try to run gnucash from a different
> desktop and/or figure out whether Linux Mint/Mate is running on a Wayland
> compositor or an X11 one.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
> Op zondag 24 februari 2019 22:14:44 CET schreef Jacob Larsen:
>> Hi Geert
>>
>> This is Mint on the Mate desktop. I found this from the configure log
>> that seems related: "No package 'gwengui-gtk3' found"
>>
>> This package is not available in the Ubuntu 16.04 base, but was
>> introduced in 18.04. If this package is critical to GnuCash then it
>> seems the configure script has a bug here. I can see that I have the
>> gtk2 version of the package installed, perhaps that causes the confusion?
>>
>> I'm not sure I will get closer to this. I have been putting off an
>> upgrade for far too long and it is probably easier to do the upgrade and
>> try again.
>>
>> /Jacob
>>
>> On 24/02/2019 00.39, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> The summary bar is using stock gtk widgets. So if there's a library
>>> dependency issue it would be gtk or one of its dependencies.
>>>
>>> Note gnucash switched from gtk2 to gtk3 between gnucash 2.6 and 3. This
>>> has
>>> lots of visual side effects because gtk3's default styling is quite
>>> different from gtk2's.
>>>
>>> This shows in lots of ways. Increased padding in various places (like in
>>> the register as you mention) is one example.
>>>
>>> I don't see the summary bar inflation on Fedora 29, though the summary bar
>>> pop-up is not really consistent in where it pops up. It's usually way too
>>> high.
>>>
>>> What desktop environment are you using on Mint 18.3 ? And is it using
>>> Wayland or X11 ? If it is Wayland, can you try an X11 session ?
>>>
>>> Geert
>>>
>>> Op zaterdag 23 februari 2019 23:41:12 CET schreef Jacob Larsen:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this is a dev or user question, but I suspect the people who
>>>> can answer are devs.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to get 3.4 to run on Mint 18.3 (Ubuntu 16.04 base). I have
>>>> gotten it to build, but the summary bar on the accounts tab is screwed
>>>> up. If I click it, it looks somewhat fine, but if I close it, it is
>>>> about three times as high as it should be, and there are no numbers on
>>>> it. Also, all the fields seem to clutter together on the left side.
>>>>
>>>> Not much of an issue, but it might be relevant. It seems like the font
>>>> used for transactions in the ledger has slightly bigger spacing around
>>>> the text compared to my previous version (2.6)
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing this is probably a dependency thing, but can somebody help
>>>> narrow down which one? Which lib is used for this summary bar.
>>>>
>>>> /Jacob
>>>>
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