[GNC] Custom Gtk theme (was: Formatting the Register header?)

[Geert Janssens]

Please use reply-to-list or reply-to-all to keep the conversation on the list 
:) (and I'll do so myself in this resend :(  )

Further see my answer below.

Op dinsdag 14 januari 2020 21:46:48 CET schreef Malcolm Fitzgerald:
> > On 15/01/2020, at 6:34 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:> 
> > Op dinsdag 14 januari 2020 12:40:43 CET schreef Ken Farley:
> >> I don't really remember ALL the places I tried. Pretty much all the
> >> places recommended by the Wiki about this stuff for Gnucash. Some
> >> examples of other attempts:
> >> ~/Library/Application Support/config/themes
> >> ~/Library/Application Support/themes
> >> ~Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0/themes
> >> etc.
> >> 
> >> What I'm asking is: Applying a theme supposed to be as simple as
> >> putting a directory of theme data somewhere, then putting a
> >> settings.ini file somewhere else to tell GTK to use that theme. If you
> >> are running Gnucash on MacOS, what are those two locations? I just
> >> want an example of a setup that works.
> > 
> > I don't have a mac so I can only advise in theory.
> > 
> > I know the mac configuration is slightly different from the other
> > platforms. As far as I can tell you should install your themes in
> > ~/Library/Application Support/config/themes
> > 
> > And the settings.ini file in
> > ~Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0
> > 
> > As this involves two sets of files it's difficult to tell which part is
> > failing if it doesn't work.
> > 
> > So I would propose to first try and make the settings.ini work by
> > experimenting with some of the other aspects you can configure in there
> > and
> > see if these changes go through and only then try to make the theme work.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Geert
> 
> The file structure on my Mac running Gnucash 3.8 looks like this. There is
> no themes folder, nor is there anything in the config/gtk-3.0 folder.
> 
Installing themes is a manual process which includes creating the "themes" 
directory yourself :)

Same goes for the settings.ini file. It's not installed by default, you have 
to create it. I believe the wiki has a sample somewhere.

Regards,

Geert