[GNC] Formatting the Register header?

[Adrien Monteleone]

I haven’t noticed any window size change with the inspector, but I don’t open GnuCash full-width or full-screen anyway. That is odd behavior, but maybe it is to accommodate the inspector window.

You can target nodes, but without an id or the element having a name, you can’t target specifically. Particularly, targeting within the register page is difficult without those elements being named.

Just out of curiosity, what are you trying to change about the header row?

You can run the inspector without the open command, but you have to use the full path to the executable like so:

`GTK_DEBUG=interactive /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash`

.app files are just ‘package bundles’ or special folders that MacOS normally hides the contents of. You can open them via Finder if you right-click and choose ’Show Package Contents’. From there you’ll be dropped into the `Contents` folder of that .app and you can navigate from there. (you also have full access via `ls` in Terminal.app)

As for building and maintenance, yes, you’d have to find where the GUI stuff is defined, then you’d have to adjust that every time the app updates.

Since this is an open source project, an option would be to contribute your UI changes back to the main code base. Then they could get integrated into the app for future releases and your styling rules would work from then on. (as well as for anyone else) See the wiki about development if you are interested in this route.

If you don’t want to get into coding it and dealing with GitHub, then file an RFE explaining what you’d like changed in the UI on Bugzilla. It might not get implemented for some time, but you never know. If the change is quick and easy and doesn’t cause other problems, someone might take it up.

Regards,
Adrien



> On Jan 26, 2020 w5d26, at 12:15 PM, farleykj <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I thought about building the app myself, but it would be a huge
> undertaking to figure out where to set things up, i.e. where are the gui
> elements built and assembled? Plus, next time there's an update to a new
> version, I'd have to do all the hacking I did all over again in order to
> upgrade. Not something I'd look forward to.
> I got the GTK Inspector to work, in a sense, but it told me the things I
> pretty much already new, that the "name" of the items I wanted to style is
> "" (blank). As far as I know, you can't target a specific widget with CSS
> styling unless you know its name. Plus the inspector oddly affected the
> overall size of the application. When I exited and then restarted the app
> without the inspector, it had the full width of my monitor. Weird, probably
> my fault, but I don't know how.
> 
> A big tip for running the inspector on Mac OS: You've got to use "open"
> before the path to Gnucash. In other words, it's
> 
> *GTK_DEBUG=interactive open /Applications/Gnucash.app*
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken