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

davidcousens49 at gmail.com davidcousens49 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 17:22:49 EST 2021


Works fine in GnuCash 4.8 on Linux Mint 20.2 (including whenusing a dark theme).
The blue highlight bar appears under the colored tab when a tab is selected as
the active tab. What OS?

David Cousens

On Sun, 2021-12-12 at 22:42 -0800, AC 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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