Well, Tom, it's certainly an interesting discussion in general. :) I'd like to make two points:
- You keep referring to Windows and I'm not sure why. At the moment I'm using GnuCash on both Windows and Linux and can't say that there is much difference if we talk about changing visual appearance. Both are using dark themes. On Linux it is set at the OS level (window manager, actually) and in Windows I simply followed a tip from Geert, now listed at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3, section 1.2.1 Dark Themes. All it takes is to create a settings.ini plain text file at %LOCALAPPDATA%\gtk-3.0 (you can paste that in Windows Explorer's address bar) and add the two lines listed there on the page. If you are looking for other types of customizations, do read that whole page. It *will* get simpler if you read it a few times over a few days. Things somehow sink in. Especially if you also try it in practice once, fail, try it again on another day. It works miracles. - Another point is about users not being developers. I get this a lot in all the Open Source projects I contributed to. And perhaps it is easy for me to say because I *am* a professional developer, but I could say that I know *a lot* of people who used to fix their own cars. None of them were car mechanics. A few people I know can fix almost anything they have at home (as long as it does not have software in it! :)) but they are not professional craftsmen or anything like that. Do note that it is year 2018. There is now almost nothing out there that works without software. It is up to you if you want to be semi-literate (sorry if it is sounds harsh, but yes, it is the 21st century, the age of Hal 9000 and all that), and yes, even HTML and CSS count in "programming" nowadays. What I would really, *really*, like you too look at is this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1mBqKvIyU. He has a much better way of explaining this. Just look at the first five minutes if you don't have more time. You'll see what I mean. If you can make a figure out of wood and you're not a carpenter then why also not make your own accounting program or a tool to change visual appearance of it? This is addressed to all the users who shy away from doing any "development", nothing personal. Cheers -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
