Re: The whole panel focus/keynav thing

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> writes: 
> 1) The panel background will no longer be focusable, except when there
> are no objects on it.  Instead, focusing a panel will always give focus
> to an object *on* the panel.
> 
> 2) By default, the panel background will not highlight when an object on
> the panel has focus.  Well actually, it will, but the default will be to
> use the same colour as the panel background, so you won't notice--
> honest :)  This means that people who *need* the panel highlight can
> easily get it thematically, by changing the panel background highlight
> colour.  Panels with pixmap backgrounds will be unaffected, their
> backgrounds won't highlight regardless.

What's the point of 2) if you do 1)? 

(Why not just make it always highlight when you have an empty panel -
no one will have an empty panel anyway, so no complaints. Or for that
matter, with an empty panel you could easily draw a huge standard
focus indicator inside the whole panel, as if the panel were a
button.)

I love points 1, 3, and 4, they seem to make 2 kind of a non-issue
though.

Havoc