Transparent Background on Drop Down in GNUCash

[ardichoke]

Describe the problem: The account selection drop-down menus in GNUCash have a transparent background when using Pop OS themes (both dark and light), this makes the text illegible. Interestingly, if you change focus to another window while these drop-downs are open, the background on them becomes solid as expected.

Steps to reproduce:

1. With a Pop OS theme applied, launch GNUCash
2. Open an account
3. Click on the "Transfer" drop-down in the ledger

Distribution:

PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS"

Pop version:

[502]$ apt policy pop-gtk-theme | grep -i installed

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

  Installed: 5.2.0~1593549084~20.04~8c31be9

[503]$     flatpak info org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Pop
error: org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Pop/*unspecified*/*unspecified* not installed

[isantop]

What kind of result do you get if you use GNUCash with the Adwaita theme? You can temporarily run it with the Adwaita theme using this command:

GTK_THEME=Adwaita gnucash

[ardichoke]

It works as expected, with a non-transparent background and readable text even when GNUCash has focus. I actually switched my theme over to Adwaita entirely because of this bug, since I spend a non-trivial amount of time using GNUCash and this bug makes it very hard to work with.

[isantop]

Thanks for checking that! That helps a lot in figuring out where the issue is being caused. I've got a new commit ready to go which will be released soon which fixes this issue.

[indrekots]

I seem to be having a similar issue, but for me, I'm experiencing transparent dropdowns only while using Pop OS dark theme. The transparency issue does not occur when using the light theme.

$ apt policy pop-gtk-theme
pop-gtk-theme:
  Installed: 5.3.0~1605227705~20.10~50f789b

The following image depicts the dark theme.

Similar to what @ardichoke reported, when the GnuCash window loses focus, the dropdown becomes readable, although it's not fully opaque.

When switching the theme to Pop OS light, then I don't see any issues.

Anything else I could provide to help debug the issue?

[jacobgkau]

Interesting. I am not seeing the same issue with the same version of the theme installed:

@indrekots We would probably need to figure out what's different between your machine and other machines to cause this. If you create a new user account (Settings -> Users), log out of your normal account and into the new account, and open GNUCash, does the issue occur there?

[indrekots]

With a brand new user, I didn't observe this issue. Perhaps it could be due to some plugin? I'll try to disable them and report back.

[indrekots]

Not sure what has changed on my computer but now It works as intended. Therefore, disregard my comments.

[bdelespierre]

I experience the same behavior. I believe this is due to upgrading GTK and still using a relatively old .gnucash savefile. The problem doesn't seem to appear on new savefiles.