In Views list, the main (index?) column doesn't have alternating backgrounds

Can you provide more information?

Do you mean the Views>List page?

Or the Yourview>Basic Settings>Style>Table output?

Both look fine to me and the rows are striped.

Can you post a picture?

That helps, thank you. This is happening because in your_view>basic settings>style>table settings ('Defaults: Style options') the default sort order is set to title perhaps. This happens in all themes including Garland. It is because the class 'active' is added to the table cell for that column.

This is default Drupal CSS style found in modules/system/system.css on line 23 that is making this grey background.

td.active {
    background-color:#DDDDDD;
}

If you change the sort order in your_view>basic settings>style>table settings to none, the table rows will be zebra striped as you wish. You can add a 'Sort criteria' to your view to control the sort order and still get the stripes.

OK, I was looking at garland with citrus blast and couldn't see the slight change. So this is a feature request to add the css classes tr.even td.active and tr.odd td.active to pixture/style.css.

While we're at it lets color the lines as well and get rid of the default system.css grey border on table rows.

Starting on line 44 of pixture/style.css change:

tr.odd td, tr.even td {
  padding: 0.4em;
}
tr.odd {
	background: #fdeaf7;
}
tr.even {
	background: #ffffff;
}

to:

tr.odd td, tr.even td {
  padding: 0.4em;
  border-bottom:1px solid #eb5ac3;
}
tr.odd {
	background: #fdeaf7;
}
tr.even {
	background: #ffffff;
}
tr.even td.active {
    background: #fdeaf7;
} 
tr.odd td.active {
   background: #f9cbed;
}
thead th {
    border-bottom: 2px solid #eb5ac3;
}

Attached is a patch for style.css. This patch adds the css classes tr.even td.active, tr.odd td.active and thead th. It also adds a border-bottom to tr.odd td, tr.even td.

Remember to save the theme configuration settings after changing style.css to see the changes.

Has anyone had a chance to test this patch? I haven't had time myself, be good if anyone has tested this can give some feedback, looks like a necessary change to me.