Re: SimpleList interline padding and background

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> > > It's not quite as bad as that, just nearly! There are no  
> > > extraneous \n
> > > on the end either.
> >
> > Are there actual blank rows in between?  If not, is the text centered
> > vertically, or more near the top of each row?
>
> Have a screen shot:
> <shot.jpg>

That's actually perfectly normal gtk+.

The cells have what appears to be a lot of padding because they leave  
room to draw the focus rectangle fully within the cell, without  
overlap, and the text boxes gather the extents such that all  
characters in the script can fit without going outside the box.  The  
vertical spacing has been a source of consternation for many since  
GNOME 2.0, and i seem to recall some talk on the gtk-devel-list about  
patches to allow apps that need tight vertical packing to reduce it,  
but i don't know that anything came of it.

As Aristotle said, try a different theme, and see if you get anything  
more to your taste.

You can also try messing with the various properties of your cell  
renderers (see the Gtk2::CellRenderer and Gtk2::CellRendererText  
manpages for properties like height, ypad and rise, and i'll leave it  
as an exercise for you to figure out how to fetch the renderers from  
the treeview ;-), but the last time i messed with it (easily over two  
years ago), i was disappointed.


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