Re: panel prelight on focus

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 14:19, Lars Weber wrote:
> Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> wrote:
> 
> > Seth Nickell wrote:
> > 
> > > in the long term, is there a compelling reason to have the panel 
> > > focusable, and not just the objects on it?
> > 
> > None that springs to mind... the need to be able to access the panel's
> > right-click menu is pretty much the only reason we do it.
> 
> Wouldn't it then be an option to only make the objects in the panel
> focusable and to provide a key-combination that bypasses the focused
> object and opens the right-click menu of the panel instead?

That's another thing that would have to be memorized explicitly rather
than using a standard technique. We want to avoid that as much as
possible. It would work functionally, but its another thing a disabled
user would have to "read and memorize from the manual" to be able to do,
which just raises the bar and makes GNOME a bigger PITA for them.

-Seth