Re: Focussed vs. prelighted widgets

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Simon Budig <Simon Budig unix-ag org> writes:

> Hi all.
> 
> Is there a good reason, why it is not possible to influence the
> focussed Widgets via a gtkrc? Especially for people that prefer
> the keyboard over the mouse it might be helpful, to make the
> focussed widget similiar (or even more pronounced) to the
> PRELIGHT-state of the widget. The tiny black box around an
> widget sometimes is a very weak indicator.
> 
> IMHO there should be a FOCUSSED state equivalent to the PRELIGHT
> state for the gtkrc. The only problem I can see is, that a widget
> might be focussed *and* prelighted and thus GTK has to select,
> which one to use. I'd suggest prelight, since focussed widgets
> still have the black border.

You can do a lot via a theme in GTK+-2.0. The default style
of focused widgets is also different - a Windows-style dotted
rectangle for buttons, etc.

Regards,
                                        Owen