Re: grid lines and background

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:11:12PM +0200, Uri David Akavia wrote:
> > It shouldn't be much harder than adding a pref somewhere.  The
> > question of course is, where?  Answering that would take some
> > digging.
>
> Why should this be a pref? Shouldn't the default be showing grid lines
> no matter what the background color is?

No.  That would make all imported xls workbooks ugly.
The XL semantics (which I agree with) is that grid lines are shown
in cells with no background colour.  When you set the colour, it
fills the entire cell, even the grid.  If you still want lines you
need to add manual borders.