[Usability] Visual highlight of active inputs

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

I'm curious as to what people think about trying to make the current 
focus more visual prominent on input widgets - especially text input fields.

Currently, the only visual indication of an active/focused text input 
filed in Gnome (and in Windows, for that matter) is the thin blinking 
text-input cursor.

Mac OS X does this quite nicely, which a soft-blue outline around the 
currently active text-input box - see example: 
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/art/textinputlarge.gif

Also, if you turn on the keyboard access functionality in the "Universal 
Access" menu in the OS X preferences, the same soft-blue outline 
displays on any focused widget (buttons, flydowns, checkboxes, etc.).

Might this be something worth considering for Gnome/GTK?

Steven Garrity