Can the icon for Close and delete be different ?

[Thelma Sabim]

Good tip about "apt pinning". I will place a question in LM Debian mailing
list.
Thank you.

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Thelma Sabim <thelma at thelmasabim.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> I am not sure if the newest version already has a different icon, but
>>>> the
>>>> same "X" is used for Close and Delete the current transaction... the
>>>> only
>>>> difference is that one is black and the other red.
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>>> Greetings -- on my Ubuntu 14.04 system I see a difference; the toolbar
>>> contains a dark grey "X" for Close, and a red "universal no symbol" (red
>>> circle with a diagonal line through it) for Delete.
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>>> You must be using a different operating system, or a different windowing
>>> environment. I have noticed sometimes the icons change when I upgrade
>>> Ubuntu. I don't know if there's a way to make them better on your system,
>>> but if you could reply to the list saying what OS you use -- maybe someone
>>> else can suggest a way to improve the way yours looks.
>>>
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> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Thelma Sabim <thelma at thelmasabim.com>
>  wrote:
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>> Hi Tommy,
>> I am running Linux Mint Debian 1.
>> There are two "X"... one grey for Close and the red for Delete the
>> current transaction.
>> Many times when I want to close the page I ended up clicking on the red
>> "X" and deleted the transaction. Maybe a different icon for "close" will
>> help daltonic people since the "X" look the same.
>>
>> Yes, there is a circle for Cancel the current transaction... Maybe in the
>> newer version the red "X" was removed.
>>
>> I am planning to update to LM Debian 2 and after that I will do the same
>> for GnuCash.
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>> Thank you for answering.
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> I just noticed in another question you're running GnuCash 2.4.13. The
> icons very well might look different just by upgrading to GnuCash 2.6.x --
> the latest version is 2.6.9, which is probably too new to be in Debian yet,
> though I am almost certain 2.6.8 is in Debian Testing. I suspect you need
> to get GnuCash 2.6.x packages from a different repository -- your version
> of Mint must be based on (what used to be called) Debian "Stable" because
> the 2.4.x versions are pretty old at this point. (Not that they weren't
> good.)
>
> If you don't want to learn to download and compile the latest GnuCash
> yourself with each release, you might check with Mint folks to learn how to
> activate a "fresher" Debian repository and "pin" newer GnuCash packages in
> your system so you can get the latest accounting software without
> sacrificing the Debian stability you were probably striving for when you
> installed Mint Debian Edition. The technique is called "apt pinning."
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