Thank you, Geert. Should this invitation maybe go in the Wiki, or the help file?
-- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com On 2018-03-31 08:37, Geert Janssens wrote: > > A more general note. I have done some experimentation about what can be done > to tweak the gnucash user interface in the absence of the Theme selector we > used to have for gnucash 2.x (that was removed from gtk for gtk3, not > something gnucash had any say in). > > It turns out that apart from really starting to customize css settings one > can > also install custom themes. It's still a bit of manual work but it's much > less > complicated than looking for individual settings. What follows can be used as > a basis to document this on the gui tweak wiki page. > > Note this custom theme will affect all gtk3 based applications on your system! > > Short summary: > 1. Download an appropriate gtk3 theme from www.gnome-look.org > 2. Install the theme in a directory where gtk3 looks for themes > 3. create or adjust a settings.ini file to tell gtk3 to use this theme > > Slightly longer with platform dependent remarks: > > > 1. Go to the gnome-look.org website > 2. Click the "Gtk3 Themes" link (*not* the Gtk2 one) > 3. Select a theme you like > Alternatively you can search for keywords (like "dark") in the top right > corner and then filter on "Gtk3 Theme category" > 4. If you have found a theme you like, download the proper file (in the files > section of the theme page). > > Note depending on your operating system you may not be able to open all theme > files. I have seen for example .deb archives which are specifically targeted > at the Debian linux distribution and derivates such as Ubuntu. While Ubuntu > and Debian users can install those themes via their package manager these > themes are not useful for other platforms. > Theme files ending with .zip, .tar.gz or tar.xz are likely installable on all > platforms, although you may have to find a proper application to extract > them. > On Windows 7-Zip is a good candiate, linux users can probably extract the > files directly from their file manager. > > So... > Let's take the theme "Eye-friendly Dark RBC" as an example (it's not the best > theme but it can serve as an example). The file to download is "Eye-friendly- > Dark-RBC.tar.gz" > > 5. Extract this file using an appropriate tool. This should give you a > directory named "Eye-friendly-Dark-RBC" > > 6. Move this directory to a location on your system that's parsed by gtk. > This > is platform dependent: > - Linux: $HOME/.local/share/themes/ > - OS X: Here I'm not sure. Possibly > $HOME/.local/share/themes/ (like on linux) > or $HOME/Library/Application Support/themes/ > I suspect the first unless one overrides the XDG_DATA_HOME environment > variable > - Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\themes\ > > 7. Next tell gtk to load this theme. > Linux users can probably most easily do this by install the "Gnome Tweak > Tool" > on their platform and select the new theme there. > > The manual method is this: > Create a file named "settings.ini" in the appropriate location. Again this > depends on your platform: > - Linux: $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/ > - OS X: Again I'm not sure. Possibly > $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/ (like on linux) > or $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0 > I suspect the latter in this case because gnucash overrides the > XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on OS X > - Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\gtk-3.0\ > > The contents of this file should be > > [Settings] > gtk-theme-name=Eye-friendly-Dark-RBC > > And that's it. Note the name is the name of the directory as you put in the > themes directory. > > The next time you start gnucash it should pick up this theme. > > A few extra notes: > * The default gtk3 theme is called "Adwaita" > * On linux there's a second default theme called "Adwaita-dark" which should > also give you a dark themed gnucash. Unfortunately this doesn't work on > Windows. I suppose it's not included or improperly configured there ? On OS X > I haven't tried this. > * If you're adventurous you can probably also play with customized icon > themes > which you find on the gnome-look.org website. These themes should be > installed > in the icons directory next ot the themese directory. And to activate them > you > can add gtk-icon-theme-name=<directory name> in settings.ini. > * Another setting some of you will be interested in is > gtk-font-name=<a font description> > for example > gtk-font-name=Abyssinica SIL Regular 10 > * More gtk settings one can override can be found here: > https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html > > Regards, > > Geert > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
