Re: panel prelight on focus

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> My suggestion... why not pop up a small "pseudo-titlebar" above the
> panel (not full width... probably centered) edge of the panel using
> the "focused" colors.

It's not a bad idea... we talked about something a bit like that before,
IIRC (can't remember if it was on one of these lists or not).  Trouble
is it looks a bit odd for panels that are stuck to the top of the screen
(since the title bar would have to appear along the bottom of the panel
to stop things jumping around), and it doesn't really work at all for
panels that are stuck to the side of the screen, at least not if you
want to put some text in the title bar.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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