remove "focus" effect of clock applet

[BK]

Bug happens in two scenarios:

A: The brown background of the clock applet has to be a bug. Tell me, if i'm wrong! Reboot your system, don't click anything and hover your mouse cursor over the gnome-panel to reproduce (take a look at the screenshot attached below). You will notice a brown mouse over effect of the clock applet although the mouse cursor is located at a different position of the panel. The first time you click on something this won't happen anymore.

B: To reproduce:
1. Boot Ubuntu.
2. right-click on the clock applet (makes the calendar appear)
3. right-click again on the clock applet (make the calender disappear again)
4. In the panel, click either of the icons of the indicator applet
5. result: the "button" of the clock is getting an orange/rose background colour

The clock applet is focused in both the scenarios causing this "false focus" to be noticeable

[Dilomo (ankere)]

Thank you for reporting this issue. It is probably something with the focus of buttons I use on panel buttons too. So when you load your system the focus goes to that widget(date button). I suggest you could reproduce this by clicking on the date button and then mouse over the panel. Can you check that? Is it happening with other themes Dust, Human with their dotted focus rectangles?

[BK (hwt2010-deactivatedaccount)]

I can't reproduce this issue the way you suggested (clicking on the date button and then mouse over the panel).
It is happening with other themes (i tested Human, Dust and Hanso) as well. What do you mean with "dotted focus rectangles"? (excuse me, English is not my mothertongue).

[Dilomo (ankere)]

Don't worry English is not my mothertongue too ;)

Dotted rectangles are dotted lines that go around button and other widgets that has focus. You could move the focus by pressing Tab key.

As it is happening in other thing this seem to be normal. What bothers you though might be the color of the focus that appears to be the same as in button but on dark background. Is that so?

[BK (hwt2010-deactivatedaccount)]

Before i submitted this bug, i hadn't known that other gtk-themes are also affected of this mouse over effect. Thus is wrote the bug report. Sorry!

[Dilomo (ankere)]

No problem. You could still report this issue as related to Gnome or the One hundred papercuts project.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Vish (vish)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream.
Once submitted upstream , do report back here with the upstream bug number.
Thanks in advance!

[Vish (vish)]

This is something which would probably be addressed as part of the app indicators work that is going on >
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators

This is not a trivial work though

[Vish (vish)]

Is there any information regarding this bug? Has anyone sent this upstream?

[Vish (vish)]

@ Christian Göbel : The problem for both the bugs are the same , the _focus_ is the problem here.

The color you notice from the new theme is :
  focus_color = "#f15d2c"
editing the theme and changing it completely is not the solution , the clock applet should not be using this focus colors

This focus color is used when buttons/tabs are active and the hence the buttons/tabs are "focussed"
So that the user can simply hit "enter" and the preselected option is selected. This happens with all themes.

While hitting enter does not open the clock applet it should not still retain the focus

[Christian Göbel (christiangoebel)]

Just an observation: If I right click on the menu (in the panel) then the issue disappears, i.e. right clicking into the indicator button has no visual effect on the clock-applet any more.
I hope this observation helps in order to work around the issue.

[Christian Göbel (christiangoebel)]

I filed a bug upstream.

[Vish (vish)]

Thanks for sending upstream