Re: Panel is very broken, please revert.

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:
> > Feel free to blame me for this choice.  I am not sure what a better way
> > would be, drawing a focus line around the whole thing seems even
> > uglier and certainly a bit weird.  We don't have a good convention for
> > indicating when focus is in a container but not in a specific child, it
> > seems to me, so prelighting seemed at least like something that would
> > get noticed ;-)
> >
> > Better ideas?
> 
> Is there a reason we can't just focus the first child and draw focus
> for it?

For one thing, you have to be able to get to the panel's context
menu, which means it has to be focussable independent of its
children.

-Bill

> (Essentially what Windows taskbar does, right?)
> 
> Havoc