focus visualisation for KDE 4

[Thomas Zander]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 11:51, Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
> Take Kontact:
>
> You have 2 list/tree views, the folder view on the left and the mail
> list. In each of the two lists, an element is marked as the active
> element. This is wrong! They may only be marked as the active element
> when the panel actually has the focus, that means when you
> clicked/tabbed into the tree or the list view.
>
> The problem with marking both as the active widgets is that the user
> never knows when typing a letter will move him within the folder view
> and when there will be no effect - try it yourself.. ;-)

As we obviously still need a marker for the selected item in a part of the 
widget hierarchy that does not have focus we need an extra rendering 
state.  I have not seen this in any Qt theme.

It would be a good idea to start with saying that for widgets that take 
keyboard focus having focus should render the selected element in a 
different color then when the widget does not have focus.
Sounds like something we should add in the HIG.

ps. thanks for the screenshots; without them I would not have understood 
what you meant :)
-- 
Thomas Zander
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