[GNC] Changing colors and layout on 4.8

[AC]

That was exactly it, though I was not able to find this using the 
inspector. Everything was coming up as a GtkBox.

The font size was already small on my system, the tabs themselves were 
three times the height of the font.

Unfortunately the scroll wheel doesn't work on the tabs any longer to 
quickly move through the list but at least I can see more tabs.

Before making this CSS change I could only see nine tabs.  Now I can see 
24 (I have a total of 37 open).  So the padding was huge, I just 
couldn't find the padding anywhere in the inspector though that could 
mean I simply overlooked it without realizing it.

But I now have a nice dark themed application.  I'm also pleasantly 
surprised at the speed of loading and saving the file.  I recall mention 
of this being fixed and I can certainly appreciate it.  It took about 
two minutes for 2.6.3 (my previous version) to load my file and 4.8 
takes about ten seconds.

On 2021-12-10 19:42, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
> A while back, someone (named Adrien!) shared tips on formatting the tabs at https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-January/088583.html
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> Sent: Fri Dec 10 21:45:51 EST 2021
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Changing colors and layout on 4.8
> 
> Note too that there are some 'defined' register colors. The example CSS
> files linked from the wiki should at least illustrate these. (though I
> don't think there is much 'documentation' on them, their names should be
> self-explanatory)
> 
> I'll dig into my own CSS file to see if I adjusted that tab-height
> property. Or barring that, fire up the inspector myself. But you should
> be able to see a property that affects it.
> 
> Caveat: respect the Cascade! thus, if a child of the tab, say a 'tab
> label' has a 'font-size' specified in *any* independent measurement (not
> in reference or dependent on the tab dimensions itself) that child
> element will then 're-size' the tab if the tab is set to contain *all*
> of its content. (I'm not describing that precisely correct for all
> cases, but I think I'm conveying the right idea) This is a 'thing' in
> Web CSS, but for some elements of GTK CSS, it is baked in. That is,
> those elements always adjust to fit content of their children and you
> don't have an easy means to change their behavior via CSS.
> 
> So you can set a tab height to 1px, but if your child tab-label is 12px,
> (plus or not — margin/padding), then your resulting tab will be that
> much larger regardless of the 'official' tab-height property.
> 
> I suspect that is the problem.
> 
> First, find a nice font-size for the entire UI. Stick with it. (there is
> good reason for this)
> 
> Then adjust *padding* on the 'tab' or *margin and/or padding* on the
> 'label' of the tab as needed.
> 
> That's what I've done so far, and it works well enough for me, though
> I'm not trying to shrink my tabs into near oblivion.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 12/10/21 5:48 PM, AC wrote:
>> The syntax is roughly the same which is fine but what I'm finding harder
>> is identifying the appropriate selectors based on the output of the
>> inspector is harder.
>>
>> I've gotten most of everything I wanted fixed except for the height of
>> the register tabs. The inspector so far isn't showing me anything
>> helpful to tweak that would let me reduce their height.
> 
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