I'm creating a styled QTreeView using double-dispatch to resolve specific delegate for data items, which is working great. I subclassed the delegates from QStyledItemDelegate to take advantage of stylesheets, enabling the designers to style the UI outside of the code.

Unfortunately, I have been unable to address different styles from the CSS. How do I select and use the item sub-control style specified in the stylesheet?

The CSS I'm testing with:

QTreeView::item:selected {
    background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1, stop: 0 #dddddd, stop: 1 #888888);
}
QTreeView::item:selected[role="title"] {
    background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1, stop: 0 #fde7ef, stop: 1 #f1cbda);
}
QTreeView::item:selected[role="entry"] {
    background: qlineargradient(x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1, stop: 0 #e7effd, stop: 1 #cbdaf1);
}

My delegate rendering classes:

class VisitingDelegate(QtGui.QAbstractItemDelegate):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(VisitingDelegate,self).__init__(parent)
        roles = {}
        self.renderRoles = roles

        d = TitleDelegate(parent)
        d.setProperty("role", "title")
        roles['title'] = d

        d = EntryDelegate(parent)
        d.setProperty("role", "entry")
        roles['entry'] = d

    def delegateForIndex(self, mi):
        role = mi.model().data(mi, "renderRole")
        return self.renderRoles[role]

    def paint(self, painter, option, mi):
        dg = self.delegateForIndex(mi)
        return dg.paint(painter, option, mi)
    def sizeHint(self, option, mi):
        dg = self.delegateForIndex(mi)
        return dg.sizeHint(option, mi)

class TextDocumentDelegate(QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate):
    fmt = "<font color='%(color)s'>%(text)s</font)>"
    def paint(self, painter, option, mi):
        painter.save()

        opt = QtGui.QStyleOptionViewItemV4(option)
        self.initStyleOption(opt, mi)
        opt.text = ''

        style = opt.widget.style()
        style.drawControl(style.CE_ItemViewItem, opt, painter, opt.widget)

        textRect = style.subElementRect(style.SE_ItemViewItemText, opt, opt.widget);
        doc = self.asTextDoc(option, mi)
        painter.translate(textRect.topLeft())
        doc.drawContents(painter)

        painter.restore()

    def sizeHint(self, option, mi):
        doc = self.asTextDoc(option, mi)
        sz = doc.size()
        sz = QtCore.QSize(sz.width(), sz.height())
        return sz

    def asTextDoc(self, option, mi):
        info = {}
        info['text'] = mi.model().data(mi, Qt.DisplayRole)

        doc = QtGui.QTextDocument()
        doc.setDefaultFont(option.font)
        pal = option.palette
        if option.state & QtGui.QStyle.State_Selected:
            color = pal.color(pal.HighlightedText)
        else: color = pal.color(pal.Text)
        info['color'] = color.name()

        doc.setHtml(self.fmt % info)
        return doc

class EntryDelegate(TextDocumentDelegate):
    pass
class TitleDelegate(TextDocumentDelegate):
    fmt = "<h3><font color='%(color)s'>%(text)s</font)></h3>"