Re: Color hinting for custom colours in GtkTreeView

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Thomas Canty <tommydal optushome com au> writes:
> I want to be able to set colors for columns in the GtkTreeView, and have
> the color hinting turned on for that color (A.K.A Nautilus list view)

The current tree view should automatically look like the Nautilus list
view, AFAIK. You mean you want a different color per-column?

> Unfortunately the only way i can see of doing that with the current API
> is to sub-class GtkTreeView and re-write the expose function to allow
> this to be done. I don't particularly like this solution :)
>
> (GtkCellRenderer's have no information about the colour hinting so it
> can't be done there)
>
> I was wondering if there were any suggestions of a nicer way to
> accomplish this with GtkTreeView?

Could conceivably add a PARITY flag to GtkCellRenderer, maybe file a
bugzilla report asking for a solution to this issue.

Havoc