Many other themes set slightly different, altering backgrounds for lines in lists and trees. I think the following should do the trick: .view row:nth-child(odd) { background-color: shade(@base_normal, 0.93); } However, this doesn't have any effect with the Xfce engine?
The themes have alternating colors by default. (I think an applications can disable this, haven't checked) So it the problem that you don't see alternatic colors, or you can't change the alternating colors?
I don't see alternating colors: All rows in lists have the same white background, both in gtk2 and in gtk3, no matter what theme I select (happens for both the predefined Xfce themes which have alternating colors defined and for my own theme). Alternating backgrounds did work with other theme engines, at least in gtk3 (I can't remember for sure what they looked like in gtk2).
Created attachment 4224 gtk3-demo -> Tree View -> List Store This is the list store demo using the Xfce-winter theme. gtk3-demo should be provided with Gtk3. Could you check if you have alternating colors there? If so could you give me a name of an applications which doesn't have alternating colors?
Hmmm, works fine in gtk demo, both gtk3 and gtk2, both my theme and the predefined Xfce themes. Doesn't work in oxygen-gtk3-demo (part of oxygen-gtk), doesn't work in gnome-mplayer (gtk3 version), doesn't work in the nemiver debugger, ... (oxygen-gtk3-demo is a treelist, the others are plain lists with columns and headers).
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