active tab color

[Harold]

The fact that Linux is so configurable by the user is both good and bad. The good is really good for those that have the time or inclination to take on the learning curve of Linux. The bad is that the learning curve can be overwhelming to the average computer user plus a lot of people don't have the time to invest. The investment is worth it to me plus I have had the time and the monetary cost of Linux is great. I use both Windows and Linux so don't take this as a commercial for Linux.

Harold



________________________________
 From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; The00Dustin at gmx.net 
Cc: 'Harold' <hh6199 at yahoo.com>; plantz at ieee.org 
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: active tab color
 
Op donderdag 2 februari 2012 20:38:57 schreef Dustin Henning:
>     If you're using Windows XP, the MS-Windows theme appears to use the
> highlight color on the inactive tabs and not the active tab (wich makes the
> active tab a different color).  I am only guessing it is the highlight
> color.  I know that my inactive tabs all turned black (and the text was
> black, no good for me).  I thought the active tab was a different color with
> the default theme on 2.4.9, but maybe not on 2.4.7, which runs an older
> version of gtk (or something), but I could be wrong on that.  I think the
> default theme is called Nimbus on 2.4.9, don't know what it was on 2.4.7.
> Dustin

The fact that your inactive tabs turn black is due to a bug in the original 
default Gtk theme on Windows (this theme is called MS-Windows). There are 
other bugs in this theme, so the GnuCash developers decided a while ago to 
change the default theme to Nimbus, which doesn't exhibit these problems. But 
the developers can only set a default theme. If someone chose another theme 
via the Gtk Theme Selector application, the default theme is ignored.

Additionally, GnuCash 2.4.10 will ship with a more recent Gtk version in which 
many of the problems with the MS-Windows theme have been resolved. So GnuCash 
could probably switch back to that theme as default. Or you can use the Gtk 
Theme Selector application to change it yourself.

Note: all this info is only relevant for Windows. These problems didn't exist 
on linux or Mac OS X.

Geert