Style GtkIconView to use the same background colour as the GtkTreeView

[danielfrancis]

The white (#FFFFFF) background is the same color as the scrollbars.
See a screenshot at:
http://sugarlabs.org/~francis/screenshots/iconviewwhite.png

You can see in the right that the scrollbar results to be confusing with the same color as the view.

[manuq]

Sounds like a good thing to have. I grepped sugar shell and toolkit and there are no references to Gtk.IconView, so the change will not affect them. Could you write a patch, Daniel?

[danielfrancis]

I'm trying to make the patch.
The rule background-color in GtkIconView or GtkIconView.cell (I found the last one in Adwaita) doesn't work.
Works by replacing the rule background-color of .view, but it affects the Journal list. So, I'm reproducing the same bug with short content to scroll in Journal.

Just a purpose: decide and use the same white for Journal, Home View, TreeViews in activities like Log, Chart, et al. and IconViews.

If you only accept to have the same color in IconViews and TreeView, I can 1) look for the right rule or 2) set the light grey background to .view and add rules to set white background to the Journal and HomeView (in list mode).

[manuq]

Replying to danielfrancis:

Just a purpose: decide and use the same white for Journal, Home View, TreeViews in activities like Log, Chart, et al. and IconViews.

I'm changing my mind about this, our scrollbars should work regardless of the canvas color. We can add a very thin border in the white bar for this.

[manuq]

Patch - add border to scrollbar slider.

[manuq]

Screen grab of the Journal with the patch applied.

[danielfrancis]

+1 to your patch. Once you push it to git, this bug is closed.

[manuq]

Thanks for reviewing Daniel, pushed as e9997ca4 .

[manuq]

Pushed

[dnarvaez]

Milestone 1.0 deleted