Re: panel prelight on focus

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 08:25, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Alex Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Calum Benson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Luis Villa wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > There must be a better way to do this. This behavior is the most
> > > > > frequently reported non-crash bug against the new panel, and if users
> > > > > think it is a bug, it is a bug.
> > > > 
> > > > Well, alternative suggestions are always welcome.  Drawing a dotted box
> > > > around the panel is next-to-invisible, though, so I'm not sure what
> > > > options there are other than changing the panel background colour.
> > > 
> > > We could always make it a preference so that only people who really need 
> > > it can enable it. I think the current prelighting behaviour is one of the 
> > > most irritating things in gnome2.
> > 
> > Agreed. That seems like the best solution to me.
> 
> Not to me... making behavior like this an option is just saying "we
> couldn't figure it out, so you can choose between two broken states".
> 
> That the panel is focused is actually something anybody with a
> keyboard should care about... you should always know what a keystroke
> should do.
> 
> But using prelight to indicate the focus is just not right... prelight
> indicates something about what mousing does.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The text on this "pseudo-titlebar" is left as an excercise to the
> reader...  simplest would be "GNOME Panel", though that's not terribly
> useful information to the user.

Ick! I want the panel to feel really really light, not heavier. One of
my objections to PRELIGHT is that it made the panel feel heavy. As
mentioned earlier, I think the ideal is to make the panel feel like a
part of the current window.

-Seth