signal emission process

[Paul Barton-Davis <pbd op net>]

Aha!

from gtk_propagate_event():

      /* Only send key events within Window widgets to the Window
       *  The Window widget will in turn pass the
       *  key event on to the currently focused widget
       *  for that window.
       */

      window = gtk_widget_get_ancestor (widget, GTK_TYPE_WINDOW);
      if (window)
        {
	  if (GTK_WIDGET_IS_SENSITIVE (window))
	    gtk_widget_event (window, event);

          handled_event = TRUE; /* don't send to widget */
        }

which pretty much rules out the handling that one would expect.

OK, so now I understand it, but the question is what to do about it :)

--p