gui flaw

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Aug 6 22:34:18 EDT 2010


On Aug 6, 2010, at 1:47 PM, jh wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 11:39 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:07 AM, jh wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 09:46 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
>>>> On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:33 AM, jh wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 06:46 -0700, John Ralls wrote: 
>>>>>> On Aug 6, 2010, at 6:37 AM, jh wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> there is a small unpainted area at the ends of the scroll bar when the
>>>>>>> Account-Selection-Box opens over the register. Was same in 2.2.9.
>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On what OS/distribution and version? 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> John Ralls
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Lenovo T61, Ubuntu 10.04, proprietary NVidia driver 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Juergen 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please remember to copy the list when you reply.
>>>> 
>>>> The spaces that you see should be occupied by the up and down arrows for the scrollbar. These are icons which are distributed as part of Gtk+, and they're present on my (OSX) system with Gnucash built against Gtk+-2.20. 
>>>> 
>>>> This is most likely a packaging error on Canonical's part. You should take it up with them.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John Ralls
>>> 
>>> Hi John,
>>> the arrows are painted correctly. It seems that the register is painted
>>> over the arrow's background. It seems that it first paints the arrow's
>>> background, then the register and then the arrow tip. You can see the
>>> arrow's tip painted over the register on screenshot-2.
>> 
>> OIC. Looks like the transparency is getting set incorrectly. You might try changing themes to see if that has an effect. But I didn't notice before that you've got two scrollbars, one which looks normal for the register page and another inside of it, which is the one that's messed up. How did you get that inner one to appear?
> 
> 
> Wow, changing the theme makes the difference! It is amazing to watch
> everything being repainted when you change the theme! 
> So that seems to be a bug outside of GnuCash. Thanks for that insight!
> 
> I also just noted, that the word 'Account' is not translated. How would
> I fix that?

Good. 
Yes, themes control many aspects of the way widgets get drawn and many are written by folks who are better at art than programming. (Which is a Good Thing, because programmers tend not to be so good at art.) 

File a bug with a screenshot attached so we'll know exactly which string we missed.

Regards,
John Ralls



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