Alternate row colors not working

[Miguel Beltran]

I activate and deactivate the alternate row colors and it doesn't work.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

It is, but GTK relies on themes, and the defaut windows one for GTK3 do not provide this as it try to imitate windows native interface and alternate rows is not used in windows app.

Previously for version <= 4.6.3 I was using a tweaked by myself theme to do this, but it's no more that simple to do in gtk3.
That is for the explanation, no ready solution yet, except using an alternative GTK3 theme.

[Kenny3794 (kenny3794)]

Per Gnome 3.14, this function is deprecated and no longer guaranteed to work. If you want alternating colors, you will need to find a new theme.

Source: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkTreeView.html#gtk-tree-view-set-rules-hint

I have the same observation in Gnome 3.14.2 in ArchLinux.

[Miguel Beltran (miguel-beltran)]

How can I change the theme?

[Kenny3794 (kenny3794)]

You can download themes at deviantart.com for GTK3. You would then use the Gnome Tweak Tool or a command line gsettings call to change the theme.

Beyond that, though, I think Maxime needs to reconsider the method he has of creating alternating rows, since that functionality is now deprecated. Perhaps this functionality just goes away? Or there's some CSS code methods for alternate row theme that may or may not work.

[Andre Soares (soares-andre)]

Hi. My name is Abdre (Brazil) and I have the same issue here. I'm using Fedora 21 and homebank 5. Previous version is working fine.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

I found a way to tweak the gtk-win32 theme again, so I did it.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

SO that's for the windows user of course.
Linux user might find a them that enable this: Adwaita do not (that's the defaut gnome/gtk theme)

zukitwo, plane, and windows 8 are okay

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

I suggest you pick some theme into gnome-look.org

Generally just add a part of xss do the trick:

.view row:nth-child(odd),
.view row:nth-child(odd):hover {
  background-color: shade (@theme_base_color, 0.98);
}