Re: A few theming-related GTK+ issues

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:04 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:

> So in general:
> 
> * Only one item on the desktop should have keyboard focus at any one  
> time, and
> * Focus should only be given to items that can accept keyboard input.

Hence not the label.


> So a tab in a notebook should show keyboard focus only when it's  
> possible to interact with the tab (e.g. switch tabs, rearrange tabs,  
> pop-up a tab's context menu if it has one), and not when any other  
> control on the tab has focus.

In the cases where you currently get to see the rectangle around the tab
label, keyboard interaction is with the notebook, not a single tab, as
next-tab and previous-tab are notebook actions, not tab actions.


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