Re: 6 API-ish issues

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:34:24PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> [ GtkEntry selections ]
> 
> > GTK+-1.2 had a "selected but not the selection state, drawn in a different
> > color. (Not SECONDARY, just not in an X selection; SECONDARY would defeat
> > the purpose since only one app could have SECONDARY.)
> >
> > The biggest problem with doing this for GTK+-2.0 is that we already
> > use two selected colors -- selected/focus, and selected/unfocused.
> > There's no way users would ever figure this out.
> 
> Is selected/unfocused useful? The primary selection is still active and
> ready to be pasted, even without the focus, so why is it shown shaded?

One potential reason having a "selected/unfocussed" is useful if that
the "normal" focus indication for text is the text caret (at least if
we are using interior focus, which is now the default).  If the text
is highlighted, it can be much harder to see the text caret (probably
at the end of the selected highlight box), so the visual indication
of focus is weakened.  If the selection color changes depending on 
whether the widget has focus, then the visual focus indication is
not weakened.

-Bill

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