Row's hover effect should be optional and it could be enabled/disabled in grid's configuration, the same as we add Selectable, Navigatable, Sortable, Editable, etc., functionalities to grid. This could apply to odd/even coloring too. Should no need to do hacks to achieve this.
Hi, Oscar,
The Kendo UI teams have been discussing this idea for one of our future themes as implementing such functionality for the existing ones would cause a breaking change.
You can see the full discussion here:
https://github.com/telerik/kendo-themes/issues/910
We would like to invite you to continue voting for this item as if it gains enough popularity we will definitely consider it for the future themes.
Kind
Regards,
Alex Hajigeorgieva
Progress Telerik