[GNC] latest gnucash release (3.1) feedback

[Alun Champion]

Thank you all, this gave me enough information to track down and create
custom styling, having the tabs down the left side meant all the top and
bottom margin and padding was just wasted space.

Note: One minor issue I found when switching between 2.6.21 and 3.1 is that
any open reports seems to lose the start date, no idea why.

I’m on a Mac, was able to run the gtk3 inspector by running
GTK_DEBUG=interactive
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash from the command line,
which shows the various css nodes (and you can experiment with the
styling). And created a ~/Library/Application\ Support/Gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
for tight tabs:

notebook tab {
  min-height: 0px;
  margin-top: 0px;
  margin-bottom: 0px;
  padding-left: 0px;
  padding-right: 0px;
}

notebook tab box {
  padding-top: 2px;
  padding-bottom: 2px;
}

I was also able to change the colors in the reports by changing the
base_colors in
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash/scm/html-utilities.scm
.
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On 30 May 2018 at 07:07, Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 May 2018 10:00:56 +0100
> Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 30 May 2018 00:12:00 -0500
> > Alun Champion <list at achampion.net> wrote:
> >
> > > MacOS High Sierra, Gnucash 3.1-3.
> > >
> > > If anyone finds a way for reducing the padding around the tabs (left),
> I
> > > would be very interested. 3.1 uses almost twice as much space as
> 2.6.X. I
> > > keep a number of tabs open (reports, accounts, registers, etc.) and
> this
> > > comfortably fits on the screen now in 3.1 this forces scrolling. The
> arrows
> > > to scroll up and down are particularly slow and with also losing the
> > > ability to scroll the tabs then this becomes very awkward.
> > > Also it seems the stylesheets aren't working - or at a minimum there
> are no
> > > color changes between the stylesheets and the new colours are quite
> 'prime'.
> > > Changing settings also seems to be very slow, with quite a lag between
> > > selecting an option and for the tick to appear or disappear.
> > >
> > > I guess I will need to figure out how to change the styles - colours
> and
> > > fonts - default fonts for 2.6.X worked fine for me but the new fonts
> are
> > > too spidery.
> > >
> > > But still a fantastic piece of software - thank you all for such great
> work.
> > >     -A.
> > >
> >
> > There's a theme here that helps a little.
> > https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1179399/
> >
> I went with Adwaita-Slim https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1181146/ after a
> little testing.
>
> If you want even narrower notebook tabs, edit
>
> ~/.themes/Adwaita Slim/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
>
> Search for "tabs" or "notebook"
>
> Mike E
>