[GNC] Where is the theme selection in 3.x?

Peter Jackson jackson at fastmail.net
Thu Jul 5 03:51:31 EDT 2018


Your posting promped me to try this,  and starting with the sample
GTK-3.0.css, having read the wiki 3 times, I've got it working and changed
some colours. It is actually quite easy, even for a 76-year-old.
Thank you.


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On 4 July 2018 at 21:07, cicko <alen.siljak at gmx.com> wrote:

> Well, Tom, it's certainly an interesting discussion in general. :)
>
> I'd like to make two points:
>
> - You keep referring to Windows and I'm not sure why. At the moment I'm
> using GnuCash on both Windows and Linux and can't say that there is much
> difference if we talk about changing visual appearance. Both are using dark
> themes. On Linux it is set at the OS level (window manager, actually) and
> in
> Windows I simply followed a tip from Geert, now listed at
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3, section 1.2.1 Dark Themes. All it
> takes
> is to create a settings.ini plain text file at %LOCALAPPDATA%\gtk-3.0 (you
> can paste that in Windows Explorer's address bar) and add the two lines
> listed there on the page.
> If you are looking for other types of customizations, do read that whole
> page. It *will* get simpler if you read it a few times over a few days.
> Things somehow sink in. Especially if you also try it in practice once,
> fail, try it again on another day. It works miracles.
>
> - Another point is about users not being developers. I get this a lot in
> all
> the Open Source projects I contributed to. And perhaps it is easy for me to
> say because I *am* a professional developer, but I could say that I know *a
> lot* of people who used to fix their own cars. None of them were car
> mechanics. A few people I know can fix almost anything they have at home
> (as
> long as it does not have software in it! :)) but they are not professional
> craftsmen or anything like that. Do note that it is year 2018. There is now
> almost nothing out there that works without software. It is up to you if
> you
> want to be semi-literate (sorry if it is sounds harsh, but yes, it is the
> 21st century, the age of Hal 9000 and all that), and yes, even HTML and CSS
> count in "programming" nowadays. What I would really, *really*, like you
> too
> look at is this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1mBqKvIyU. He has a
> much
> better way of explaining this. Just look at the first five minutes if you
> don't have more time. You'll see what I mean. If you can make a figure out
> of wood and you're not a carpenter then why also not make your own
> accounting program or a tool to change visual appearance of it?
>
> This is addressed to all the users who shy away from doing any
> "development", nothing personal.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
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