[GNC] Chaning left sidebar spacing

[Adrien Monteleone]

I’m on MacOS Catalina using 3.8. I didn’t think my tabs were as large as the photo, but I think that is a perception due to the photo being a closeup. It seems I too have some padding in the tab and between the tabs.

I’ll note that with left-side tabs (not sure of other placements) the tab area will expand to accommodate the longest title. (I also haven’t tested the limit of this)

In the photo there is a long tab name near the bottom. (looks like a report) This widens the tab bar and makes the shorter tab names look like they have excessive spacing.

The only solution I can think of is to use top or bottom placement. This would shrink each tab to fit, but will of course allow fewer tabs to be visible without scrolling.

In the meantime, I’ll fire up my gtkinspector and find the css nodes for that part of the UI and offer some declarations to try. I should be able to report back with those later today.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 3, 2020 w1d3, at 10:43 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone else confirmed whether they are seeing this issue, and if
> so on what OS.  Certainly with 3.6 on Ubuntu 19.10 my tabs are
> noticeably more packed.
> 
> Colin
> 
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 14:11, William Marshall <marshalliv at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> No.  I can’t seem to find a way to make a change in ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css that impacts the sidebar.  I did find in the discussion and in other places how to set the padding around the menubar icons and text, and I see discussion in various places about changing the sidebar, but none of the changes I attempt have any impact.
>> 
>> I really appreciate you taking the time to respond.
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 1, 2020, at 6:45 PM, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> William,
>>> 
>>> Did the discussion on css styling not work for you?
>>> 
>>> David T.
>>> 
>>> On January 2, 2020, at 4:05 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I see what you mean.  On Ubuntu with Waterfox browser they are much tighter
>>> packed (gnucash 3.6).
>>> 
>>> Colin
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 17:00, William Marshall <marshalliv at me.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Colin,
>>>> 
>>>> I can’t do a conventional capture, since I need things highlighted by
>>>> selection and mouse activity to show what I mean, but here’s a photo from
>>>> me phone of what I'm talking about.  Notice first that “USAA Sav” is
>>>> selected and see how high the top and bottom boundary are for that
>>>> selection.  Then notice that my mouse is hovering over “USAA Visa” and see
>>>> that it has the same excessive (to my eye) top and bottom boundaries.
>>>> ALSO, notice that there is a separator between the two.  I’d really like to
>>>> scrunch everything together like it used to be.
>>>> 
>>>> I really appreciate any help you can provide.
>>>> 
>>>> Bill
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 1, 2020, at 10:00 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Can you post a screenshot showing exactly what you mean?
>>>> 
>>>> Colin
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 00:55, William Marshall via gnucash-user
>>>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I don’t know if this is the right pace to ask this or not, and I’m sure
>>>> it’s already been asked many times, but Googling for solutions hasn’t
>>>> provided me any relief.  How do I reduce the spacing on the left sidebar
>>>> that lists the accounts and reports that I’ve opened?  Right now, they way
>>>> spread out vertically, which happened when I switched to GnuCash 3.X.  I’m
>>>> currently using GnuCash for Mac version 3.7, Build ID: 3.7+(2019-09-07).
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Bill Marshall