[GNC] latest gnucash release (3.1) feedback

[Alun Champion]

I'm using a custom date.
And flipping back between 2.6.21 and 3.1 that date is lost (in both
directions).
   -A.

On 2 June 2018 at 09:36, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
wrote:

> Nice find.
>
> On the report start date issue, are you using a specific custom date or
> one of the presets?
>
> Mine are all set to ’start of accounting period’ and my book’s accounting
> period is set to ’start of current year’. I’m not seeing any loss of start
> dates.
>
> Perhaps some other date setting is where the issue lies.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Jun 2, 2018, at 7:29 AM, Alun Champion <list at achampion.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > .
> > ​
> >
> > 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
> >>
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