[HIG] Re: applets and focus indication

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:06, Joergen Scheibengruber wrote:

> Sorry for the stupid question, but how do I access the popup menu of a
> applet via the keyboard? I have been asking myself this since quite a
> time.

Same way as you pop up the menu for anything else-- move the focus to
it, then press Shift+F10.

> Regarding the original discussion: In my eyes it doesn't look very good,
> if a applet takes all the size in the panel. So I think it would be ok,
> if the panel tells the applets a smaller size, then it actually has.
> However I think this should be not more than 2, max. 3 pixels on every
> side (more shouldn't be neccessary to draw the focus indicator, or am I
> wrong?)

The large print themes currently set the focus indicator width to 3
pixels, so allowing for an extra pixel on each side of that I guess
about 5 (or maybe 7) pixels on each side would be the maximum that any
GNOME theme would realistically need.  I'm not sure that would be an
excuse for just hard-coding a 7-pixel gap around every applet though :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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