On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote:

> Remove boneheaded behavior of making the selection disappear when 
> focusing out the window. This is especially bad when using mouseover 
> focus. This behavior made it difficult to be working in another window
> and selecting things on the unfocused window as a "hiliter" for 
> yourself, since selections would disappear as soon as you unfocused 
> the window.
> 
> Perhaps it _would_ be a good idea to tint selection color somewhat
> if the window is unfocused, making it an obvious indication that the 
> window is not focused (but isn't that what the window manager is for?)
> but allowing the selection to remain visible.

I don't think that we should do anything with the selection
colour.  I agree 100% with you that this is a function of
the window manager to show you which of multiple windows
has input focus.  This feature is more or less present on
all systems.

Thomas
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Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher       QNX Software Systems
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