I thought that change was made in the move to 3.x, but perhaps the UI
was affected for the final releases of 2.6 as well. One of the early 3.x
versions switched back to showing both text and buttons.
Perhaps consider trying the Flatpak version. That way you can move up to
the current 4.4.
Robert,
I just fired up a copy of release 2.6.18 in Ubuntu 18.04. I did notice
that there are mouse fly-over descriptions for toolbar icons. I did not
find that option to show text with the icons, which I thought was still
there.
One other possibility would be to check out Gnome Tweaks, but I
I recently upgraded my OS from CentOS 6.10 to Ubuntu 18.04 and thus from
GNUCash 2.4 to GNUCash 2.6. With GNUCash 2.6, the toolbar only has images for
most of the tools. GNUCash 2.4 had a preference setting to display both text
and images, but that preference seems to be missing in GNUCash
