On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 5:52 PM Tommy Trussell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 4:20 PM Les <[email protected]> wrote: > >> After using the 3.8 version on Linux Mint 19.1, I find that is much >> faster than the 2.6.19 version. I have one issue regarding the accounts >> page, I entered an incorrect amount for a payment and then tried to >> remove it (even deleting the line) but nothing worked. I finally closed >> GC without saving and reopened it and entered the correct information. >> >> Is this a known bug? >> > > I have noticed this, too; I believe it's a screen refresh issue. I'm > trying to replicate it on Ubuntu 19.10 and cannot, so I think it's an issue > with a build based upon Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (which your Mint probably is). > That's the version I use in my office. > > Here's what I have noticed -- I click on a transaction and choose Delete > from the toolbar. A confirmation dialog pops up, and I agree that I want to > delete, but the transaction does not disappear from the register. HOWEVER > if I close and reopen the register, (or maybe if I choose View --> Refresh > ?) the transaction is gone. > > I have noticed a few other display issues with GnuCash built for Ubuntu > 18.04. The register colors are strange around the text, especially > noticeably on the date field. > I feel compelled to update this a little bit -- As I said before, I think things look different on my system now that I've installed dconf-editor on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic" system. I installed it so I could have a look at the GTK+ inspector and its CSS features. I haven't adjusted any CSS, but the application installation seems to have brought in a few other packages, too. Here's more about using the inspector: https://blog.gtk.org/2017/04/05/the-gtk-inspector/ After installing dconf-editor, I have not been able to replicate the deleted transaction refresh issue. Though maybe I just I haven't yet hit the exact sequence that triggers it. You might try installing dconf-editor and see if it improves it for you, too. I believe having it should otherwise be benign. ONE ADDITIONAL strange thing, however... Sometimes I want to enter data from my laptop into a GnuCash file that's on my office computer, so I open GnuCash using ssh: $ ssh -X user@host gnucash /path/to/datafile.gnucash I was surprised to see the GnuCash windows on my laptop (running Ubuntu 19.10) look good, even though the application is running from the desktop system (running Ubuntu 18.04). I naively expected it to have the same display issue around highlighted text. (Specifically: when text is being edited, the text is surrounded by a rounded rectangle with a thin border and a white background.) SO I just spent (entirely too many) minutes testing some scenarios... At this moment I am preparing a new CPU for my office running Ubuntu 18.04, so I decided to try the same task connecting from a newly installed Ubuntu 18.04 client to the old Ubuntu 18.04 host. Ubuntu 18.04 client, ordinary Ubuntu desktop: I found that the strange coloration around highlighted fields is still present when the client is an "ordinary" Ubuntu 18.04 desktop. Ubuntu 18.04 client, running Wayland: The coloration has the same problem as regular Ubuntu. (However the SSH windows are quite sluggish.) Ubuntu 18.04 client, MATE desktop: The coloration around highlighted text looks much better. I just went back to the old desktop and opened the gnome-tweaks tool and played with some themes... the default Ubuntu application theme is "Ambiance," and I see the text edit problem with both Ambiance AND Radiance, but the text looks more consistent when some of the other themes. So there MIGHT be a weird Gnome theme issue with GnuCash built under Ubuntu 18.04. As I suggested, the default theme in Ubuntu MATE seems to work better. I think I've tinkered enough with this for now. Maybe someone who understands Gnome themes better will suggest something easier to implement. P.S.: The next Ubuntu LTS release is scheduled for April, so the updated libraries should filter to distros like Mint by this summer sometime. ----- > 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 [email protected] 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.
