[GNC] latest gnucash release (3.1) feedback

[Anthony Dardis]

I had similar experiences with 3.1 on OS X 10.13.4 on a 2015 MacBook 
Air. My standard setup opens 4 accounts and one report, a version of 
Balance Sheet that presents an overview. With 2.6.19, they all open at 
once; with 3.1-1, they open in sequence (is there also a redraw in there 
somewhere?) which gives an impression of "flashing".

My impression is that the colors/fonts/UI/etc are better in 3.1-1 (that 
is: they look great!) but the system is working harder to make this 
happen and so it "feels" less robust.

(One bit of UI that I missed: in 2.6.19 a "swipe left" mouse pad gesture 
in the tab bar brings you to the left (or to the leftmost tab); 3.1 
seems not to have this any more?)

I had the "can't parse user file" issue with 3.0-1, and it went away 
with 3.1-1.

I had a crash, though, which put me back to 2.6.19. I was reconciling 
each of my high activity accounts at beginning of month last week; the 
first two went smoothly; I opened the account to reconcile the third, 
clicked the Reconcile button, and GnuCash crashed "completely", just 
disappeared and stopped. The Apple crash dialog came up, but I wasn't 
sure if there was value in sending anything to Apple. No data loss, but 
concerning.

Cheers,

Tony

On 5/8/18 1:19 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> You can tailor the colors and fonts to your liking using a custom CSS file. I’m not sure what you mean by ‘layout’ but the new Gtk+3 version does have more padding in many areas. I don’t think this is easily changeable, but it might be possible.
>
> I’m not sure what is causing your flickering issues though. (I’m using High Sierra on a Mac Mini and don’t see any such issues) Those would probably be worth filing bug reports over. However, there’s a good chance those are video card related and might not be necessarily solvable via GnuCash code. Do you use any other Gtk+3 apps on your Mac? (if so and those apps don’t flicker, then that would help to show it is a GnuCash problem and not a Gtk problem)
>
> Finally, note that there is a more recent version of 2.6, The latest out is 2.6.21. It fixes several bugs from that 2.6.19-1 release. (The 2.6.20 had some major issues precipitating the 2.6.21 ‘final’ 2.6 release)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On May 7, 2018, at 5:36 PM, Scott Cason via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>> I have been using Gnucash for a while now on a OSX laptop.  So far I have been satisfied with all its nuances.  However, this latest release I am more than unhappy with.  I don't know if my issues are the same between all OS' but as for my Mac I have gone back to v2.6.19-1.
>> What I do not like about the new 3.1 is:(1) there seems to be a lot of graphics issues at launch,,, page flickers and windows flash(2) basically, I do not like the way the color scheme works;  colored tabs almost makes it impossible to read the tab.  this is unlike prior versions where tab color did not interfere with tab titles(3) overall, I do not like the new layout/color/font... the look is totally different and I do not like it.(4) Maybe if there weren't issues 1 and 2, #3 would not be quite so noticeable and I might not have even noticed.
>>
>> Thanks,Scott
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