Using Dark Theme - Reports are White on White

Andrew Sackville-West andrew at swclan.homelinux.org
Sun May 2 23:28:34 EDT 2010


On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:20:02PM -0400, Snood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a very minor issue for me in software that does a superb job
> of meeting my accounting needs. The problem also has an easy
> workaround, so -- if it is a bug -- it's most certainly a minor one.
> 
> System SW Setup:
> 
> Debian Squeeze (Testing)
> GnuCash 2.2.9 from Debian main repository
> Desktop Environment: Xfce 4.6.1
> 
> Due to an issue with my eyesight / migraine syndrome I am trying to
> use a dark theme, what Xfce calls the "dusk" appearance theme. All
> GnuCash functions are intact with dialogs having taken on the black
> background / white fonts and the register windows having kept their
> normal striped appearance. (I use the transaction journal view.)
> 
> The only downside to using GnuCash in this dark theme is that the
> reports are apparently generated with white text on a white
> background.

[...]

> The only other minor glitch in this dark theme is that the scheduled
> transaction editor has slightly difficult-to-read color
> combinations.
> 
> I may eventually be able to affect one or both of these issues by
> changing desktop environment settings, but I haven't had any luck as
> of yet.

try ~/.gtkrc-2.0.gnucash

here is a sample:
http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/privat/gnucash-2.3.12.tar.gz:a/gnucash-2.3.12/doc/gtkrc-2.0.gnucash

I don't know how well it works, but maybe it will help. 

A
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