[GNC] Changing colors and layout on 4.8

paul at kroitor.ca paul at kroitor.ca
Fri Dec 10 16:26:44 EST 2021


In Windows, the choice of AppData\Local vs AppData\Roaming is system-wide
and dependant upon the type of logon the user performed. A login to the
local machine account uses AppData\Local, while a domain login uses
AppData\Roaming.

There are numerous bits in Windows that deal with giving domain users
consistent settings and data when logging into a domain from a different
workstation (check out User Folder Redirection and Local / Roaming /
Mandatory / Temporary profiles). Somewhat deprecated, complex, poorly
understood, and frequently problematic, but it's still present.

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+paul=kroitor.ca at gnucash.org> On
Behalf Of AC
Sent: December 09, 2021 8:51 PM
To: D. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Changing colors and layout on 4.8

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.

On 2021-12-09 17:39, D. wrote:
> As far as I know, yes.
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: AC <gnucash at acarver.net>
> Sent: Thu Dec 09 20:14:47 EST 2021
> To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Changing colors and layout on 4.8
> 
> 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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