Re: panel focus indication

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 11:12, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Chris Chabot wrote:
> > 
> > > My guess is that only highlighting the panel (with whatever method we
> > > choose) when the panel background is clicked or tabbed-to-- in other
> > > words, when it truly has keyboard focus-- would eradicate most of the
> > > complaints, since most users will never need to do either of those
> > > things in everyday usage.
> > 
> > Ofcource this leaves the issue open for people who select a background
> > color for the panel, or select a background image. They go from 'some
> > color' to bright highlighted grey.. quite a shocking experiance ;-) Was
> > this problem ever thought about when we decided to make the panel highlight?
> 
> Yes ;-)
> 
> I believe that background pixmaps are themeable (in pixmap GTK+ themes).
> Any pixmap stuff that an app does (including the panel) should be
> themed/
> themeable.  Logically the panel should only use pixmaps if the theme
> engine
> does...

logically /maybe/, but that's not how it works.

go to panel -> properties -> background.

jacob
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