Re: Impact of fix for bug 50339 on keyboard accessibility of panel

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM> writes:

> Is this the standard way to achieve a GtkContainer and its children being 
> focusable?

> > I believe the simplest way of achieving your goals is to create a
> > dummy child widget to represent "focus on the panel" and to position
> > that at a position outside of bounds of the panel dialog widget so it
> > isn't visible.

The standard way is that the container calls gtk_widget_grab_focus()
on itself. But GtkWindow isn't really a standard container, and to
do that here would definitely require fixes in GTK+.

Regards,
                                        Owen