Re: [Usability]Re: The whole panel focus/keynav thing

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 08:17, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com> writes:
> > I am not sure whether the patch went to the release team but it was discussed 
> > with Mark Mc Loughlin. Mark has now backed out the patch.
> > 
> > So we we will have to come up with a new way of giving the user visual 
> > indication when focus is in a panel.
> > 
> 
> Maybe instead of using an existing theme color, the "prelight" could
> be autocomputed as a function of the normal color - lighter for dark
> colors, darker for light colors (and if the panel has a pixmap
> background, by doing a gdk_pixbuf_saturate() kind of thing).  That
> might look nicer. Then you could also have a simple toggle for whether
> to do it (or a slider for how much to do it).
> 
> Just trying to come up with ideas...

So, there is a basic problem with this, which just highlights why this
should have been done ages ago and not at the last minute: many panel
applets, and the menu bar, and the panel's border, completely ignore
color changes in the panel. So /anything/ you do by default at this
point is going to be pretty horribly ugly. If Mark, etc. fixed all of
those applets (esp. menu panel) that might go a long way towards making
the color changes palatable. [Though it would still be ugly and
unexpected by the vast majority of our users.]
Luis