RFC: Making focus information visible for panes

[Matthew Woehlke]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> All that said, there is still another major problem: you don't have one 
> QStyle instance per widget, you have one per *container* (and I did 
> /verify/ that), and, except in cases (e.g. kuiviewer) where you 
> intentionally create more than one container, I think that generally 
> translates into one instance /per application/. IOW, changing the 
> palette changes it for ALL widgets, so you would have to be REALLY, 
> really careful to only draw the control with keyboard focus with the 
> altered palette. (WCTS) I'm not sure that's even possible, in which case 
> this entire discussion is moot, because doing this /outside/ the style 
> just plain won't work.

Hmm, ok I'm not sure if that's true or not. I was just noticing (again) 
that KDevelop already does this sort of palette hacking (and /on 
highlight colors/, no less). I'm not sure if it is forcing a separate 
style instance or not (if it isn't, it should be for the previously 
mentioned reasons). However, the reason I notice is because KDevelop 
doing this already causes problems. The issue remains that you are 
circumventing behavior in the style, which can cause visual glitches /in 
the style/. In fact, I'm going to go report this to KDevelop now.

-- 
Matthew
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