GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 602090
Add a "unfocused text" property
Last modified: 2009-11-23 14:30:05 UTC
In evolution's (or banshee and others) search entry there's a cool behavior that is a text displayed when the widget don't have the focus. The text is grayed and when you click on the entry the text disappears, letting you to type. Once the focus goes to something else, the text if back (unless the entry has some real content). As many projects implement this "property" by hand, I think it will be valuable to have this in gtk+.
See bug 440963 for my opinion on this 'feature' *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 440963 ***