[GNC-dev] Building 3.4 on Mint 18.3

[Geert Janssens]

Ok, good luck!

Geert

Op zondag 24 februari 2019 23:55:01 CET schreef 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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