[GNC] [GnuCash 4.0] - Lost customizations from gtk-3.0.css

[D.]

I tend to agree with GTI on this one; reinventing the CSS style wheel on a major upgrade is not likely to win fans. 

I'm also curious whether the Windows install, which uninstalls earlier versions automatically, removes these files...

Having been chided recently for remaining at 3.5 rather than updating to each new minor version, I drank the Kool aid and upgraded to 4.0. I probably shouldn't have.

David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
Sent: Tue Jun 30 16:17:01 EDT 2020
To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] [GnuCash 4.0] - Lost customizations from gtk-3.0.css



> On Jun 30, 2020 w27d182, at 1:47 PM, GTI .H <gti9070h at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply Adrien !
> 
> My GOD . . . 
> 
> Ok but, we cannot read all the release announcements in full of all the software we use and that does not solve the issue created and please . . . I also like to earn money and that's where I dedicate my readings.

If you don’t read release announcements and just upgrade anyway, especially from one major version to the next, I can’t help you there...

> 
> GTKInspector did not run on Windows, this leaves Windows users out of the game and this leads us to the following question:
> 
> Who likes to keep solving the same issue over and over ?
> This takes a lot of work. Is it worth all this work to be thrown away ?

Remember, these are your customizations of GnuCash. While that can be done, the devs have designed the UI a particular way. If you want to customize, you’re on your own, though there may be other users who want to do so and they may lend some help. (like me, where I can) Although I don’t use Windows now, I do recall some apps that people loved to skin and the apps supported this. But I’d bet dimes to dollars they occasionally had to break their skin APIs from time to time as well.

Adhering to guidelines/standards for the UI is very likely worth it as this means customizations will now work more as expected comparable to other GTK apps, rather than the user having to learn something special just for GnuCash. This does mean that prior customizations may break, but that is because they were not ’standard.’


> 
> Well . . . Let's go to possible solutions:
> Is the information here https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3 up to date ?

I can’t speak to that specifically. I’ve just upgraded myself and notice at least my font size didn’t stick. My colors remained, however, so it looks like the GnuCash color variables still work.

When I get around to tweaking my CSS, I’ll see if that page needs updating. (unless someone beats me to it)

> Do we have a template gtk-3.0.css file that works ?

I don’t know if anything in that template changed.

Maybe posting your custom css file would be a better approach so we can see what rules you specified that aren’t working. (and of course, let us know, maybe with screenshots if possible) what isn’t working with 4.0.

Regards,
Adrien


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