[GNC] Changing colors and layout on 4.8

AC gnucash at acarver.net
Fri Dec 10 04:09:32 EST 2021


Fantastic, thanks.  This gives me the notebook class which I didn't know 
about and couldn't find explained anywhere.

On 2021-12-09 19:07, Ken Farley wrote:
> The settings are almost the same from 3.x to 4.x, but coincidentally, 
> the things to change Gnucash specific items (like register colors) are 
> different. I'm attaching my own gtk.css with my own preferred settings. 
> I spent a good amount of time delving into the interface settings 
> available in general for GTK3 by looking at other much more complicated 
> themes people have written, etc.
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
> On 2021-12-09 20:14, AC wrote:
>> I see information in the wiki on Gnucash 3.x because it changed to 
>> GTK3.  Is it safe to assume that Gnucash 4 is still using GTK3 so the 
>> instructions would be the same?
>>
>> On 2021-12-09 17:08, D. wrote:
>>> Much of the interface (such as tab height) can be controlled through 
>>> css. The colors in the register may be special, however, and not as 
>>> readily changed (but I could be wrong). Others have documented these 
>>> settings on the lists and in the wiki. Searches in the list archives 
>>> and on the wiki should help you.
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> From: AC <gnucash at acarver.net>
>>> Sent: Thu Dec 09 19:01:05 EST 2021
>>> To: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>> Subject: [GNC] Changing colors and layout on 4.8
>>>
>>> Ok, finally got upgraded to 4.8, so far so good.
>>>
>>> A couple things I want to change if at all possible:
>>>
>>> First is the color schemes, I'd like to change the ledger to dark grays
>>> and also change the overall UI to have a darker color if possible.
>>>
>>> The other thing I was hoping to do is reduce the size of the tabs.  They
>>> seem to be using a touchscreen sizing (large areas of empty space to
>>> allow for finger tapping) and I'd like to shrink that down, especially
>>> the register tabs (I have them set to the left and they are quite tall).
>>>
>>> Where would I go about making these changes if possible?
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