[GNC] latest gnucash release (3.1) feedback

[Adrien Monteleone]

Stylesheets within GnuCash are for reports. They are very limited in customizability. (and it seems even some settings don’t work at all) Most advice I’ve seen on this front is to copy/paste or export reports to a spreadsheet or browser and work from there on making them ‘pretty’ as needed for 3rd party consumption.

CSS for the GnuCash application is something else entirely. And those stylesheets DO work from first hand experience. General UI colors and fonts are customizable once you figure out which classes affect which elements.

I’m not sure what’s up with the performance issues you are noting. I don’t experience them, but to be fair, my Mac specs are above average so I suppose mileage varies on that front.

> On May 30, 2018, at 12:12 AM, 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 May 2018 at 00:19, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> 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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