Fast reactions to 2.7.8

Sat Mar 31 11:25:36 EDT 2018

That’s certainly a thorough run-down on changing themes.

But is there a way to edit a theme to make the button label visible? I see one could download a theme and go through all that trouble, only to find out the theme is hiding the labels. That could turn into quite a trial and error process and certainly result in having to choose a less desirable theme, just to have a label on a button.

On that note, is having a label on a button not done in the UI code? Looking at the button reference I see each one would need both an icon and a label or mnemonic label. I suppose the theme could choose or not to show the label, but it would have to be programmed in first. If all of those toolbar buttons are icons only...

(sorry, I haven’t taken a look at the code yet)

I would then suspect that in order for GnuCash to offer a toggle, it would have to at the least, branch the code on that preference to display buttons with or without labels, and then the question, “Are the labels are visible?” would depend on the user’s GTK theme. It appears the GTK devs either didn’t think this one through, or they are trying to enforce a certain look. Or maybe they can’t be made invisible by the theme at all, and this is entirely decided in UI code.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Mar 31, 2018, at 7:37 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op dinsdag 27 maart 2018 18:44:38 CEST schreef Stan Brown:
>> (1) Not a fan of the toolbar showing icons without words. I _hate_ an
>> interface where you have to hover over every single icon until you can find
>> the one you want.
>> 
>> Many programs offer "words only", "icons only", and "icons and words" as
>> choices. I couldn't find anything like that. Please add it.
>> 
>> (2) At first I thought performance was horrendously slow, when I was
>> entering transactions in the general ledger. Turns out the actual issue was
>> that the Tab key, instead of advancing to the next field, just gave focus
>> to the "Save" button at upper left. This was on windows 8, with Build ID:
>> git 2.7.8+ (2018-03-25).
> 
> A more general note. I have done some experimentation about what can be done 
> to tweak the gnucash user interface in the absence of the Theme selector we 
> used to have for gnucash 2.x (that was removed from gtk for gtk3, not 
> something gnucash had any say in).
> 
> It turns out that apart from really starting to customize css settings one can 
> also install custom themes. It's still a bit of manual work but it's much less 
> complicated than looking for individual settings. What follows can be used as 
> a basis to document this on the gui tweak wiki page.
> 
> Note this custom theme will affect all gtk3 based applications on your system!
> 
> Short summary:
> 1. Download an appropriate gtk3 theme from www.gnome-look.org
> 2. Install the theme in a directory where gtk3 looks for themes
> 3. create or adjust a settings.ini file to tell gtk3 to use this theme
> 
> Slightly longer with platform dependent remarks:
> 
> 
> 1. Go to the gnome-look.org website
> 2. Click the "Gtk3 Themes" link (*not* the Gtk2 one)
> 3. Select a theme you like
> Alternatively you can search for keywords (like "dark") in the top right 
> corner and then filter on "Gtk3 Theme category"
> 4. If you have found a theme you like, download the proper file (in the files 
> section of the theme page).
> 
> Note depending on your operating system you may not be able to open all theme 
> files. I have seen for example .deb archives which are specifically targeted 
> at the Debian linux distribution and derivates such as Ubuntu. While Ubuntu 
> and Debian users can install those themes via their package manager these 
> themes are not useful for other platforms.
> Theme files ending with .zip, .tar.gz or tar.xz are likely installable on all 
> platforms, although you may have to find a proper application to extract them. 
> On Windows 7-Zip is a good candiate,  linux users can probably extract the 
> files directly from their file manager.
> 
> So...
> Let's take the theme "Eye-friendly Dark RBC" as an example (it's not the best 
> theme but it can serve as an example). The file to download is "Eye-friendly-
> Dark-RBC.tar.gz"
> 
> 5. Extract this file using an appropriate tool. This  should give you a 
> directory named "Eye-friendly-Dark-RBC"
> 
> 6. Move this directory to a location on your system that's parsed by gtk. This 
> is platform dependent:
> - Linux: $HOME/.local/share/themes/
> - OS X: Here I'm not sure. Possibly
>            $HOME/.local/share/themes/ (like on linux)
>      or  $HOME/Library/Application Support/themes/
>  I suspect the first unless one overrides the XDG_DATA_HOME environment
>  variable
> - Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\themes\
> 
> 7. Next tell gtk to load this theme.
> Linux users can probably most easily do this by install the "Gnome Tweak Tool" 
> on their platform and select the new theme there.
> 
> The manual method is this:
> Create a file named "settings.ini" in the appropriate location. Again this 
> depends on your platform:
> - Linux: $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/
> - OS X: Again I'm not sure. Possibly
>            $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/ (like on linux)
>      or  $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0
>  I suspect the latter in this case because gnucash overrides the
>  XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on OS X
> - Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\gtk-3.0\
> 
> The contents of this file should be
> 
> [Settings]
> gtk-theme-name=Eye-friendly-Dark-RBC
> 
> And that's it. Note the name is the name of the directory as you put in the 
> themes directory.
> 
> The next time you start gnucash it should pick up this theme.
> 
> A few extra notes:
> * The default gtk3 theme is called "Adwaita"
> * On linux there's a second default theme called "Adwaita-dark" which should 
> also give you a dark themed gnucash. Unfortunately this doesn't work on 
> Windows. I suppose it's not included or improperly configured there ? On OS X 
> I haven't tried this.
> * If you're adventurous you can probably also play with customized icon themes 
> which you find on the gnome-look.org website. These themes should be installed 
> in the icons directory next ot the themese directory. And to activate them you 
> can add gtk-icon-theme-name=<directory name> in settings.ini.
> * Another setting some of you will be interested in is
> gtk-font-name=<a font description>
> for example
> gtk-font-name=Abyssinica SIL Regular 10
> * More gtk settings one can override can be found here:
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
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