[GNC] 3.7 Accounts open bar

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 13:08:30 CET schreef elvis:
> 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.

I do sympathize.

Unfortunately the GnuCash development team is too small to maintain its own 
custom css style to adjust for the design choices made by the Gtk developers.
We used to have a theme selector for 2.6, but that was no longer supported 
either after Gtk switched to version 3.

If you happen to be on linux (you didn't mention your platform) you could try 
to use the gnome tweak tool to install a different gtk3 theme. You can 
download plenty from https://www.gnome-look.org/browse/cat/135/order/latest/

I don't know of a similar tool for the other platforms but it should be 
possible to install a different Gtk theme on these platforms as well, albeit 
manually. If you find a nice predefined gtk theme that uses layout choices 
that better fit your requirements you could try that route rather than 
tweaking css directly.

Regards,

Geert