[GNC] 3.7 Accounts open bar

[Adrien Monteleone]

Another option if it works for your screen is to switch the tabs to vertically instead of horizontally. I’ve found I can fit more tabs that way, and they are always readable. (at least with enough text for me to tell some similar ones apart)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Dec 3, 2019 w49d337, at 6:08 AM, elvis <elvis at dogonfire.com> wrote:
> 
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> On 3/12/19 8:58 pm, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> In 2.6.12 I have 12 accounts open with space for 3 or 4 more. They all
>>> have close buttons on them, and every bit of text is readable.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In 3.7 I have 12 accounts open, but to fit them on the screen I have had
>>> to change preferences --> windows to width 7. Which makes the account
>>> names unreadable. And there is no more space to open other accounts.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> is there a way to bring back the old behaviour? It looks like someone
>>> has tried to pretty things up, but it has made it unusable.
>> The "someone" in that sentence is the upstream gtk project. We depend on their
>> code to create the graphical user interface for gnucash. When Gtk switched
>> from version 2 to 3, they redesigned all of the user interface elements the
>> gtk library provides. In many cases the new elements take up more space as you
>> noted.
>> 
>> As to what can be done about it: you can tweak the style sheet used by gnucash
>> to render the user interface elements on screen. Starting points for this can
>> be found here:
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3#Visual_Styling
>> 
> Thanks Geert,
> I'm both super happy that I can do something about it, and also sad to find out that all those threads that ended in "fix the CSS" apply to me. I was hoping it wouldn't be the case but kind of expecting it. I will report back with results.