Your posting promped me to try this, and starting with the sample GTK-3.0.css, having read the wiki 3 times, I've got it working and changed some colours. It is actually quite easy, even for a 76-year-old. Thank you.
Nurton Court Middleton-on-the-Hill Ludlow SY8 4BD Tel: 01568 750 248 Mob: 07955 586 476 On 4 July 2018 at 21:07, cicko <alen.sil...@gmx.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
