Changing the selected item colour in a GtkTreeview using python

Question

I have a dialog which contains a pygtk.treeview for listing tasks by priority. Each row has the background colour set based on that priority, so for example the highest prio

Answer 1

You could add a separate pixbuf cell (say, the same size as a small icon) to the far left to indicate selection. Selected rows could fill this with a more "solid" (saturated) version of the colour used for the background. For example. if you use a pink background for high priority, you could use red for the selection indicator. Or you could use an icon.

To implement this with the colour filling method:

1. Disable the built-in highlighting as per Tobias' suggestion ("make the STATE_SELECTED color identical to STATE_NORMAL").
2. Create a widget based on gtk.gdk.Pixbuf that allows you to create a solid area of colour, perhaps using the fill method.
3. Use a CellRendererPixbuf for your "selection" cell.

You can then color or uncolour the "selection cell" upon selection changes to indicate which row is selected, or display an icon (eg. a stock symbol).

Note that I haven't implemented this, it's just an idea. It departs significantly from the usual GTK selection indication, so (obviously) use your judgement as to whether it's useable.