[g-a-devel]Re: panel focus indication

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> 
> Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:
> 
> > Semantically I think GTK_STATE_SELECT makes sense for this, and is what
> > is used for splitter bars; but in the default GTK theme this looks
> > pretty ugly.  But this is easy to override for the panel however, in a
> > gtkrc file, it's just a matter of choosing a default (now).
> 
> > * we can easily override the PRELIGHT colors for the
> >   panel to reduce the perceived problem for users who
> >   don't need bold highlighting, via a trivial RC-file
> >   addition.
> 
> I agree, except that I think we shold use the SELECTED colors for
> this. A theme that decides that normal prelighting is ugly and thus
> sets PRELIGHT=NORMAL should not need to special-case the panel to get
> keyboard focus back. The theme can change the dark blue color to
> something else if it wants to.

Yes, I agree with you.  SELECTED makes more sense here.

-Bill