[GNC] latest gnucash release (3.1) feedback

[Mike Evans]

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