active tab color

Bob Plantz rgplantz at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 17:21:24 EST 2012


On 2/2/2012 5:17 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op woensdag 1 februari 2012 19:41:23 schreef Harold:
>> I have been looking for the answer to this but haven't found it yet....
>>
>> In PCLOS 2011 kde and Gnucash 2.4.8 I have more than one bank account tab at
>> the top. Is there a way to make the active tab a different color. I notice
>> that when you click a tab it gets a little taller but they are all a gray
>> color. If the active tab changed color or went white it would be easy to
>> see which tab was active. Is this controlled by Gnucash or the theme of the
>> distro?
> This is really a distro theme issue.
>
> Gnucash uses whatever theme you have configured via your distro's control
> panel (be it KDE or Gnome).
>
> If that theme doesn't clearly distinguish the active tab from other tabs,
> there's not much we can change.
>
> Others have already replied suggesting that the colour code you can set per
> account in the account's properties dialog could help you partly. You could
> use this for example to define specific colours for important accounts, but it
> is totally unrelated to the tab being active or not.
>
> Alternatively, you could check if your distro's control panel allows you to
> tweak the active theme, or you can install and configure another theme via
> that way.
>
> Geert
> _______________________________________________
>
FWIW, the active tab on both my Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 
desktop) installations changes color. Can't say what the color is 
because I'm color blind. But this does appear to be a desktop issue, not 
a GnuCash one.

--Bob



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