[GNC] 3.3 unstable on macOS Mojave

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 2, 2018, at 4:31 AM, Dan Smith via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> I recently migrated from macOS High Sierra to a new system with Mojave, and replaced Gnucash 2.6.* with 3.3. I found 3.3 to be unusable, and reverted back to 2.6.23.
> 
> Some issues:
> 
> - Frequent crashes. Crashed about 3 times in 30 minutes of routine register activities.
> 
> - Text UI irregularities. I sometimes found it impossible to get the cursor in the position I wanted, or for "select all" to actually select an entire field.
> 
> - Account list missing white/grey backgrounds. This is just cosmetic, and may be a deliberate choice (or there's a setting somewhere?). But it's just a white page now, no alternating row highlights.
> 
> 2.6.23 also has issues: it seems to have trouble finding the right font, and so everything in the register and some other parts of the UI is in bold.
> 
> Are these known issues?

The crashes may be, but without a crash report one can’t be sure. Please check https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796879 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796879> and https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796867 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796867> or try the test build linked from both of them if your crash reports match the ones posted to either bug. If you have a different crash please open a new bug.

Cursor positioning is a problem reported by several users over time, see https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776602 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776602>. If you have any additional information about the problem, including suggestions about how I might be able to replicate it, please add them to the bug report.

Alternating colors/shading was removed from Gtk3 with no way to restore it. At this point with Gtk3 in maintenance mode and all development effort going into Gtk4 it’s unlikely that the Gtk folks would restore it.

There is no GnuCash 2.6.23. Perhaps you mean 2.6.21? Regardless, fonts are a styling issue that you can change fairly easily. Searchthe web for Gtk 2 theming.

Regards,
John Ralls