Changing GTK theme or UI Font on macOS

[Adrien Monteleone]

Thanks John,

I’ll test 2.7.4 then for theming.

As for font and size, that’s the code I was trying. (with a different font) I even switched it to Baskerville as a test to see if the font itself I chose was the issue. Still no dice.

I had to use this format below, but only the register is affected of course, not the entire app:

style "gnc-register"
{
  font_name    = "Helvetica Neue UltraLight 14"
}
widget "*.GnucashSheet" style "gnu-register"

(taken from the gnucash git example of a .gtkrc file)

That worked. Now there is the issue that some text colors aren’t consistent. I haven’t defined them yet which may be the problem. They seem to change between red and black after several times of opening a register.

I’ll probably just play with this with 2.7.4 as well. I’ll be moving to 3.0 anyway when it reaches stable.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 6, 2018, at 4:24 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Feb 6, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I started playing around with using a different theme than Raleigh for my GTK apps. I’ve managed to install gtk-chtheme via Homebrew along with a couple of themes and their required engines. I can select the theme with gtk-chtheme, but GnuCash doesn’t seem to use it. Inkscape does however. I haven’t yet tested 2.7.x so it may be a GTK version issue. I did note that Inkscape uses XQuartz and GnuCash does not, so there might be something there.
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>> I also tried using a RC file (~/.gtkrc-2.0.gnucash) to set a custom font, but it doesn’t seem to honor that either. The Register preference: Don’t use GnuCash built-in colors, seems to have no effect other than to change the color scheme. (the stylesheet customizations don’t seem to use other fonts either, but I can change font size)
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>> Has anyone successfully managed either customization on a Mac?
>> 
>> I’m presently using El Capitan, if that’s an issue. I’ll be upgrading to Sierra soon though.
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> This works for me to set a font:
> 
> style "font"
> {
>  font_name = "Baskerville 12"
> }
> widget_class "*" style "font"
> 
> Homebrew-built engines won't link with the libgtk-quartz.dylib in GnuCash unless you tailor the build so that it matches what's in the GnuCash bundle (same versions, -arch i386) then change the install names of all the dependencies to point at the libraries in the bundle.
> 
> You're likely to have better luck with the Gtk3-based 2.7.4 because theming in Gtk3 doesn't use engines.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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