[GNC] GC 2.6.19 & GC 3.8

[Les]

Today, when I went to price database to download some closing amounts, 
the application hung up and I to force close GC (3.8).  I tried a second 
time with the same result.  This is a first for this version of GC.  It 
used to happen often on the 2.6.19 version.

I do not know what caused it today; it has been perfect since I 
installed it (about a week ago. It would be great if you could just kill 
the price database without also killing GC.

Regards,

Les


On 3/6/20 8:24 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 5:52 PM Tommy Trussell 
> <tommy.trussell at gmail.com <mailto:tommy.trussell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 4:20 PM Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lelliott5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         After using the 3.8 version on Linux Mint 19.1, I find that is
>         much
>         faster than the 2.6.19 version.  I have one issue regarding
>         the accounts
>         page, I entered an incorrect amount for a payment and then
>         tried to
>         remove it (even deleting the line) but nothing worked.  I
>         finally closed
>         GC without saving and reopened it and entered the correct
>         information.
>
>         Is this a known bug?
>
>
>     I have noticed this, too; I believe it's a screen refresh issue.
>     I'm trying to replicate it on Ubuntu 19.10 and cannot, so I think
>     it's an issue with a build based upon Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (which your
>     Mint probably is). That's the version I use in my office.
>
>     Here's what I have noticed -- I click on a transaction and choose
>     Delete from the toolbar. A confirmation dialog pops up, and I
>     agree that I want to delete, but the transaction does not
>     disappear from the register. HOWEVER if I close and reopen the
>     register, (or maybe if I choose View --> Refresh ?) the
>     transaction is gone.
>
>     I have noticed a few other display issues with GnuCash built for
>     Ubuntu 18.04. The register colors are strange around the text,
>     especially noticeably on the date field.
>
>
> I feel compelled to update this a little bit -- As I said before, I 
> think things look different on my system now that I've installed 
> dconf-editor on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic" system. I installed it so 
> I could have a look at the GTK+ inspector and its CSS features. I 
> haven't adjusted any CSS, but the application installation seems to 
> have brought in a few other packages, too.
>
> Here's more about using the inspector:
> https://blog.gtk.org/2017/04/05/the-gtk-inspector/
>
> After installing dconf-editor, I have not been able to replicate the 
> deleted transaction refresh issue. Though maybe I just I haven't yet 
> hit the exact sequence that triggers it. You might try installing 
> dconf-editor and see if it improves it for you, too. I believe having 
> it should otherwise be benign.
>
> ONE ADDITIONAL strange thing, however...
>
> Sometimes I want to enter data from my laptop into a GnuCash file 
> that's on my office computer, so I open GnuCash using ssh:
>
> $ ssh -X user at host gnucash /path/to/datafile.gnucash
>
> I was surprised to see the GnuCash windows on my laptop (running 
> Ubuntu 19.10) look good, even though the application is running from 
> the desktop system (running Ubuntu 18.04). I naively expected it to 
> have the same display issue around highlighted text. (Specifically: 
> when text is being edited, the text is surrounded by a rounded 
> rectangle with a thin border and a white background.)
>
> SO I just spent (entirely too many) minutes testing some scenarios...
>
> At this moment I am preparing a new CPU for my office running Ubuntu 
> 18.04, so I decided to try the same task connecting from a newly 
> installed Ubuntu 18.04 client to the old Ubuntu 18.04 host.
>
> Ubuntu 18.04 client, ordinary Ubuntu desktop: I found that the strange 
> coloration around highlighted fields is still present when the client 
> is an "ordinary" Ubuntu 18.04 desktop.
>
> Ubuntu 18.04 client, running Wayland: The coloration has the same 
> problem as regular Ubuntu. (However the SSH windows are quite sluggish.)
>
> Ubuntu 18.04 client, MATE desktop: The coloration around highlighted 
> text looks much better.
>
> I just went back to the old desktop and opened the gnome-tweaks tool 
> and played with some themes... the default Ubuntu application theme is 
> "Ambiance," and I see the text edit problem with both Ambiance AND 
> Radiance, but the text looks more consistent when some of the other 
> themes. So there MIGHT be a weird Gnome theme issue with GnuCash built 
> under Ubuntu 18.04. As I suggested, the default theme in Ubuntu MATE 
> seems to work better.
>
> I think I've tinkered enough with this for now. Maybe someone who 
> understands Gnome themes better will suggest something easier to 
> implement.
>
> P.S.: The next Ubuntu LTS release is scheduled for April, so the 
> updated libraries should filter to distros like Mint by this summer 
> sometime.
>
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