[GNC] Colored account tabs in 4.8 don't show current selection

[AC]

I've only added some GTK CSS to control the register colors and to 
control the margin and padding of the tabs so they wouldn't take as much 
space.


The CSS I used is very minimal, this is its extent:

* {
	color: white;
}

.gnc-class-user-register-primary {
	background-color: #151515;
	color: white;
}
.gnc-class-user-register-secondary {
	background-color: #252525;
	color: white;
}
.gnc-class-user-register-secondary:disabled {
   color: #050505;
}
.gnc-class-user-register-cursor {
   background-color: goldenrod;
   color: black;
   border-radius: 0px;
}

.gnc-class-register-split {
   background-color: #050505;
}

tabs, tab {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}

I also did add this setting for GTK to switch to the dark theme:
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true

And that's it.  The blue highlight works fine with the above 
modifications as long as I have not assigned a color to an account.


On 2021-12-12 23:28, David Carlson wrote:
> That is interesting, and not the way it used to be in release 3.8.  There
> the colored tabs (mine are across the top) all get the blue highlight when
> selected and the text of the selected tab is bold while the rest are not.
> Did you do any customizing of the color scheme in your machine beyond what
> you can do in the preferences?
> 
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:43 AM AC <gnucash at acarver.net> wrote:
> 
>> After having gotten the main registers to all use dark themes I tried
>> using colored tabs for the first time.  That indeed has been helpful to
>> make it easy to spot particular accounts from a big list of tabs (all
>> bank accounts are one color, credit cards another, etc.)
>>
>> But one thing I noticed is that for tabs that do not use color, the
>> currently selected account tab has a vertical blue bar to its right
>> (assuming the tabs are aligned on the left side of the screen) and the
>> shade of the tab changes slightly (i.e. dark gray tabs in the dark theme
>> turn a slightly lighter shade of gray).
>>
>> However, when using color for the tabs, the blue bar does not appear
>> when you select a colored tab.  The color completely overrides
>> everything so you can't tell at a glance which of the tabs you've selected.
>>
>> I'll have to go back and drop color from the accounts for now because
>> it'll be too easy to not notice which account I'm using and start
>> entering things. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there potentially
>> a workaround to bring the selector color back while still using colored
>> account tabs?
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