[ubuntu-art] Nice Button Concept

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

On 26/11/2007, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree, that is a really nice looking button!
>
> Another detail that I think really makes a difference with the visual
> experience are those dotted lines that appear around widgets, indicating
> what is selected (and can thus be controlled with the keyboard). Really
> useful when tabbing, and it's definitely good to know what is selected, but
> the current dotted lines are very obtrusive and just plain ugly. Even if
> they just disappeared / faded away after a moment, it would look a lot
> better, but the best solution would be if there was a way of reflecting the
> cursor position within the current visual style. Is that something which can
> be handled by themes, or will we have to go give the Metacity people a
> talking to?



Reflecting the cursor onto the widgets should be possible. The theme engine
gets a pointer to a gdk window on which it can gdk_window_get_pointer in the
draw_* functions. As always the devil is in the details, and I expect this
to be pretty hard to perfect.

Cheers,
Mikkel
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