Re: panel prelight on focus

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Jorn Baayen wrote:
> 
> Is there any reason the panel is prelighted when focused, or is it a bug?
> It's rather ugly IMHO, and it's buggy. 

It's in there for accessibility reasons-- now that the panel is keyboard
navigable, there needs to be a way to show when it was focused, and the
prelight colour was chosen as it was deemed the least garish option that
was still noticeable and consistent with the rest of the theme.  So, at
least if you don't like it, there's an easy fix-- choose a theme with a
different prelight colour :)

> (For example the menubar's background on
> the foobar panel is not updated, and if you move your mouse over the tasklist
> applet you leave a trace of non-prelighted buttons in a prelighted panel).

Padraig O'Briain's been working on the whole panel focus/keynav thing...
cc'ing him on this email in case he's not aware of these particular
issues.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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