Re: panel prelight on focus

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

On 19 Mar 2002, Duncan Mak wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 13:30, George J Karabin wrote:
> > 
> > Would some kind of small 'focus-is-here' icon work? If the icon fits in
> > a small box, then the orientation of the panel shouldn't matter, at
> > least not as much.
> > 
> > I'm not certain what to use - maybe an arrow or arrow-like object that
> > points to the thing that's focused? Or maybe just a gnome foot or some
> > other icon that'll get noticed and not mistaken for something else.
> 
> Maybe we can have a little light bulb icon inside a status dock to show
> if the panel has focus? It lights up when the panel has focus and it's
> dimmed out when not.
> 
> I guess this should be in the default out-of-the-box panel, since as
> Calum said, we want the defaults to be accessible. For those who don't
> care, then they can take it off their status dock.
> 
> Sounds pretty good to me ;-)
> 
While new ideas are being tossed into the fray here, what about having it 
so;
a) when tabbing to the panel it 'throbs' slightly but doesn't actually 
remove the focus from the application being used
b) when tabbing to an object on the panel, it also then 'throbs' to 
indicate it can be launched without removing the focus from the 
application being used.

Chris