Adrien,

There’s already https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3 
<https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3> with styling instructions. Let’s keep all 
of the styling stuff together there.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 30, 2018, at 11:25 PM, Adrien Monteleone 
> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Follow-up:
> 
> I’m not sure what was wrong the first time, but the following does work for 
> all text on the CoA tab but does not change the header row:
> 
> #account_tree {
>  color: *your-color-here*;
> }
> 
> #account_tree:selected {
>  color: *other-color-here*;
> }
> 
> If there was a need to address the GtkLabels directly, that doesn’t seem 
> possible. According to the spec, it should be to style the node by type, but 
> it isn’t working. (at least in 3.18)
> 
> The class ‘label’ is also not working properly. It seems to only apply to 
> toolbar button labels and the header row of the CoA table.
> 
> Using the GtkInspector, I added the label class to the GtkTreeViewAccountView 
> widget and it worked properly though. So perhaps the code needs to somehow 
> include this for it to work. (my reading of the Gtk-css reference doesn’t 
> seem to make this clear, with the impression that one can specify a node or a 
> label regardless)
> 
> There should probably be something on the wiki documenting this, as well as 
> all the relevant selectors. (some are documented on Git as part of a sample 
> css file) If I have page permissions I’ll start one, but if not I’ll have to 
> file a wiki bug and wait for it to be created.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> 
>> On Jul 30, 2018, at 5:04 PM, Adrien Monteleone 
>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> 
>> This is proving to be more difficult than it probably should be. 
>> Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on using GtkInspector, and 
>> it seems the tool was designed for people who are doing the coding of the 
>> app and are ‘inyoursleep’ familiar with the GUI elements and objects used.
>> 
>> However, I’ve managed something that might be useful.
>> 
>> Try:
>> 
>> #account_tree {
>> color: *your-color-here*;
>> }
>> 
>> This should change the base color of the text for the entire tree, including 
>> the column headers.
>> 
>> You can use other common css rules here such as background-color, 
>> font-family, font-size, letter-spacing, padding, etc.
>> 
>> The account names themselves (and their related text in sibling columns) are 
>> likely either class “label” or “GtkLabel” (depending on Gtk version, 3.20 is 
>> the former, 3.18 the latter) but specifying this class instead of the ID for 
>> the entire tree doesn’t seem to do anything. (I’m on 3.18 using Ubuntu 
>> 16.04, but I tried both with no result) You might have better luck. Ideally, 
>> I’d rather style classes than IDs, especially since in this case, the ID 
>> includes the column headers.
>> 
>> An additional complication is that the tree-view has identical nodes for 
>> pretty much everything under it and the inspector doesn’t seem to let me 
>> select any particular account label with any specificity or figure out which 
>> node in the tree is which one I’m looking at on screen. (I understand 
>> specificity for the web, but building a unique selector seems a little 
>> different in GTK) I can only select the entire tree at once.
>> 
>> The above might also pose an issue because a selected account would need 
>> different background and font colors. The inspector is supposed to show a 
>> ’selected’ node that might be useful here, but since I can't figure out 
>> which child GtkLabel belongs to what, I’m not seeing that particular 
>> ’selected’ node.  I’ll keep trying and poking around though.
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Jul 26, 2018, at 7:27 PM, GT-I9070 H <gti90...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> One file for everything is better.
>>> 
>>> In my .ini file there is only one section and one line to change the text 
>>> size of the accounts page because it was the only method I found and 
>>> worked, the .css method for this fails. For everything else I use .css, 
>>> I've customized the registry with .css.
>>> 
>>> For tabs I already got change color and font.
>>> 
>>> I had already done searches on the list and I was not lucky.
>>> 
>>> Of course we can wait, without problems, meanwhile I'll keep trying.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> GTI
>>> 
>> 
> 
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