On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 09:44 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >> I want the mouse-over color to go away so that I just have a "normal" > >> and an "active" color for the buttons. Is there an easy way to do this? > >> I'm thinking about programmatically moving the mouse pointer to some > >> neutral location after each toggle button selection. (don't know how to > >> do that (yet).) Is there another way? > > > >Which theme does this currently happen with? Because you should always > >be able to see whether a button is pressed or not, even on mouse-over. > > read the message again. > > IMHO, the designers of GTK made a serious error with the "prelight" > state. Consider a widget whose appearance is different in two > different states, "normal" and "active", perhaps based on color, but > possibly in other ways as well. When the mouse pointer moves over it, > it enters the "prelight" state. The "prelight" state is a single > state, and therefore it cannot distinguish between > "prelight-of-an-active-widget" and "prelight-of-a-normal-widget". As a > result, moving the mouse into a widget like this causes loss of > information - you visually indicate mouse "focus", but you lose any > indication of the widget state. A custom theme could do whatever it wants ... both pieces of information are passed to it. state_type and shadow_type. (There are some major problems with GtkStateType, but this isn't one of them, really) > there are ways to work around this, such as disabling enter/leave > events for a widget, but they all have nasty side effects. it would be > much nicer to tell GTK globally that "this application cannot use > prelighting because it causes loss of information" and be done with > it. I've expressed multiple times recently a willingness to have a global "touchscreen-mode" toggle for GTK+. If someone was willing to do the work. Regards, Owen
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