[GNC] Toolbar ignoring gtk-toolbar-style setting in Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)

[Jonathan Kamens]

On 4/20/18 9:49 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op vrijdag 20 april 2018 14:39:19 CEST schreef Jonathan Kamens:
>> I am puzzled by your response for four reasons:
>>
>> 1. Ubuntu 18.04 is using GnuCash 2.6.17, not GnuCash 3, and 2.6.17 is
>> still using Gtk+2.
>>
>> 2. I observe the same behavior in the toolbar of the Gtk 2 demo
>> application. It is not unique to GnuCash.
>>
>> 3. When I SSH into my Ubuntu 18.04 box and run GnuCash over the X
>> connection forwarded through SSH, the toolbar displays as expected (with
>> both icons and labels). It is only when it is displayed on the Ubuntu
>> 18.04 local display that it's using both+horiz mode even though my
>> settings say that it should use both mode.
>>
> Right! For 2.x this should still work and it's mostly a matter of configuring
> it properly.
>
> One way to do so would be to create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home
> directory or a gtkrc-2.0 file in $HOME/.config and add the following line:
> gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH_HORIZ

I feel like you are not reading what I'm writing here.

My point -- the reason why I started this thread -- is that IT'S NOT 
WORKING on Ubuntu 18.04, even though I DO have it configured properly.

I spelled this out in excruciating detail in the Launchpad bug I 
referenced. Here it is again: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/1765401 . Please, 
kindly read the plethora of detailed information I spent hours 
collecting and putting in that bug before assuming that I'm a clueless user.

The TL;DR is that gconftool, dconf, gtk-query-settings, and gsettings 
all say that I have toolbar-style set to "both", and yet GnuCash 2.6.17 
is still using both+horiz. Creating .gtkrc-2.0 and .gtkrc-2.0.gnucash 
did not help (though it did cause the output of gtk-query-settings to 
change from both-horiz to both, though, again, that did not cause 
GnuCash to do the right thing).

>> P.S. Speaking of both+horiz, why do only three of the buttons -- Save,
>> Close, and Split -- have text labels when both+horiz mode is used for
>> the toolbar?
> That is how gtk works:
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkToolItem.html#gtk-tool-item-set-is-important
> The three buttons you mention are set imporant, hence they will have labels
> when both+horiz mode used. The others won't.

I've been using GnuCash for over a decade, and I still find the icons in 
the toolbar to be incomprehensible. If what it takes for both-horiz to 
display a label on a button is for the button to be marked "important," 
then I'd personally prefer for /all/ the buttons in the toolbar to be 
marked "important."

Jonathan Kamens