GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 636443
Unable to recognize active pane
Last modified: 2010-12-04 12:45:42 UTC
Created attachment 175831 [details] Banshee-vs-GNOMEapps Bug first reported in lp : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/678116 I have noticed that Banshee does not seem to follow the way other apps in GNOME highlight items, or show the active pane; normally apps highlight items using an orange colour, which changes to grey when that pane (or the whole app) is not focused. Instead, Banshee seems to use orange for all panes, the focused one as well as the unfocused, and shows which pane is focused by drawing a second border inside it. This deviation from the norm makes more difficult to guess what will happen if you press a given key (e.g. the tab key or a direction key), so using the standard way would be beneficial. ---- Attaching a comparison with a GNOME app,[RB just happened to be the one I could find with 3panes] Notice that all the three panes appear with the same 'active orange' color, irrespective of where the cursor is pressed. This is because Banshee uses only bg[SELECTED] for the color in all three panes and only text[SELECTED] in the browser view. Oddly, Banshee uses the text[ACTIVE] color in the source view alone. Hence we can notice that once the selection is in the other two panes, the font color changes to black. Usually themes define : bg[SELECTED] = "#foo" bg[ACTIVE] = "#foo" text[SELECTED] = "#foo" text[ACTIVE] = "#foo" Most of the GNOME apps use this to differentiate the selected/active colors.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 635428 ***