Re: Weird and wonderful visual styling of applications

["John Stowers" <john stowers lists gmail com>]

> In the specific case of RB, Gossip and Evolution, it seems that people
> want to prettify treeviews for this kind of thing, assigning specific
> visual style to elements that hold different meaning (e.g. first level
> heading, second level heading, etc.). Perhaps we should come up with a
> way to do this, so that all apps look consistent.

> From my experience I can say that the the most common customization I
try to do is make the header or level n rows render differently to the
rest.

In this regard a simple way to do that would be much appreciated. I
generally end up achieving the same thing via
* Conditional behavior in cell_data_funcs
* Pack multiple renderer's in a column and conditionally use each one
depending on the level of the row.

John