Some time ago I posted to various gtk related lists about reducing
padding between treeview rows. I got the response below, which seemed
promising as a hack fix for the single area of concern that initially
sparked my interest in reducing the space between rows. My initial
interest was to reduce the space between rows in the list of plugins in
ardour's (www.ardour.org) mixer strip, as shown in the link below (the
single column treeview where it says PLUGIN1 and PLUGIN2). I believe 3
lines should fit where there is only 2 in the image.
http://nostar.net/pics/ardour/ardour_mixer_redirect_treeview.png
If this were my only area if interest in reducing space between treeview
rows, I would have given this method a try. I've realized though, that
it's throughout gnome that I think the treeview spacing is way too much.
I believe it to be a bug in gtk that its not possible via code or
style properties to reduce vertical spacing right down to the point
where the text touches each other if desired. Perhaps its actually
within pango where the problem lies, i'm not sure about that. The
following link shows my desktop, with my gtk theme modified to reduce
treeview spacing as much as possible, compared to the KDE file manager
(shown via K3B) with no modifications at all. I've been a long time kde
user, and only recently switched to gnome to surround myself in the
environment that I have recently began studying and developing in. Ive
tried migrating to gnome in the past, and always reverted back to kde
after being just unhappy with it as a desktop. These days, I'm happy to
say, gnome has finally come so far that I'm happy using it as my
desktop, and if this vertical treeview spacing issue can be resolved, I
will have everything I desire about the look n feel of kde.
http://nostar.net/pics/gnome_vs_kde_treeview.png
By default, the spacing is even greater than shown. I used
GtkTreeView::vertical-separator and ythickness settings in my gtkrc file
to get it down this far.
Should I create a new bugzilla report from this post?
Doug
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What I do to get around this, is in my custom-cell-renderer (which may be hacky but it works for me) is to decrease from 'height' in its
custom-cell-renderers 'get_size' function so when its finally rendered its closer to 'my_desired_height' as we use the space for rendering too (see below).
snip
if (height)
{
gint vertical_separator;
*height = my_desired_height;
/* Each row has a vertical-separator equal to 2, decrease by this
amount as we render to the blank area. */
gtk_widget_style_get (widget, vertical-separator,
vertical_separator, NULL);
*height -= vertical_separator * 2;
}
/snip
and then in the custom-cell-renderers 'render' function I then add the height back again.
/* Each row has a vertical-separator equal to 2, increase by this amount to
render over this blank area. */
gtk_widget_style_get (widget, vertical-separator, vertical_separator,
NULL);
height += vertical_separator * 2;
This way though the space is still there, you are actually rendering over it,
giving the impression that its not there. Hope you get what I mean.
From: Doug McLain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/03/28 Tue AM 09:32:53 GMT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reducing space between treeview rows
Yes, I set it to 0, along with ythickness, used tiny fonts, set the y_pd
property of the CellRenderer to 0, tried every theme I have and even
bogus rc file (no theme). Nothing will bring the the rows any closer
together. At the very closest 2 rows will come together in say the file
manager, there is still enough room for almost another row of text. I
want the ability to make one row of text to touch the next. Not that I
would, but I want to get really close to that. It's looking like a gtk
bug to me.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you checked out the vertical_separator style property of the GtkTreeView.
Its this that is adding the extra spacing.
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From: Doug McLain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 March 2006 08:56 am
To: Gus Koppel
Cc: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: Reducing space between treeview rows
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I've tried different themes as well as setting xthickness and ythickness
manually in both my theme's rc file and the applications rc file.
Gus Koppel wrote:
Doug McLain wrote:
I am trying to reduce the spacing between rows of text in a single
column treeview. Ive been experimenting with both the ypad and height
properties. They both work in adding space, but neither will take any
space out. Seems like anything less than about ypad=3 doesn't do
anything. With a font size of 8, there is almost enough space between
rows to fit another row in between them. Even trying
