[GNC] Changing colors and layout on 4.8

[Adrien Monteleone]

The wiki has a 'file locations' map for each major OS. Be certain if you 
are on Windows that you are following the map for the current version. 
They changed at least from 2.x to 3.x, and may have been changed again. 
(I don't use Windows, so can't advise, but it should be obvious in the Wiki)

As for non-focused issues, I can at least report that this does not 
happen to me on MacOS. Something else might be amiss.

If I recall, each OS is on a different GTK+ version, so some CSS 
directives will behave differently. (as well as the default GTK itself) 
The key to solving this would be to use the GTK Inspector as the Wiki 
describes, but I don't think that is available on Windows. You'd have to 
fire up a virtual machine, install GnuCash in it, then inspect the 
various tabs/windows of the app to find out what is going on. And then, 
if the problem does not re-appear in Linux, then...

Another option "might" be to try WSL, but I don't know if the Inspector 
will then work on a Windows app, or if you have to install GnuCash via 
WSL too. (and then you're right back at the same problem with a VM and 
different GTK versions)

Regards,
Adrien

On 12/9/21 7:50 PM, AC wrote:
> Well I'm getting closer, just need to find more documentation.
> 
> For example, when the window loses focus, the text all changes to a very 
> light gray which washes out but I can't seem to find anything that would 
> instruct gtk not to do that.
> 
> There seems to be some differences in the wiki documentation covering 
> configuration in a Windows environment.  The file locations described 
> don't quite match where the actual files are located (for example many 
> files are actually located in APPDATA/Roaming rather than APPDATA/Local)
> 
> This affects things like how to install a full theme or even editing 
> some of the CSS.  I got the gtk-3.0.css file working but that's actually 
> in Roaming\Gnucash despite the wiki saying it should be in Local\gtk-3.0.