Re: Focussed vs. prelighted widgets

[Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>]

>Part of the breakage is that you have a set of mutually exclusive
>options, but all interesting features of a widget are not mutually
>exclusive. Say for example you wanted to add a FOCUSED state; but
>widgets can be active/normal/prelighted/selected and _also_ focused.
>So it wouldn't really work out very well.

Yes, and this applies even now. Take the following simple case:

     normal: bg color is green
     active: bg color is red

ok, so what color is prelight? if the mouse stays over the widget, the
widget adopts the prelight decoration, thus obscuring its
active/normal status. i'll include my .sig just because venturi's word
seem relevant here ...

I'm glad to hear that this concept is recognized as broken by the GTK+
crew.

--p

Paul Davis <pbd op net>                                 Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA
Linux Audio Systems                                             610-667-4807
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