On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 11:57:30 +0200, Romano Giannetti wrote: > On 01/04/17 08:38, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: >> Now, metadata editor is a little special as it both shows the data from the >> selected images as well as allows editing. For that reason it applies your >> entry whenever focus goes away so you don't need to confirm your edit. > And this is quite surprising, let me tell you. I am quite old and geeky (is > there a single word for that?) so I am one of the 5 in the world that uses > focus-follow-mouse [FFM] in my normal desktop (and I had to develop a Gnome > extension to switch to click-to-focus for the buggy programs that needs it, > like all windows programs running under wine...), so I do not object to most > of the thing underlined in this thread. > > But in my opinion one thing is removing text input when mouse go away (which > I find natural, given the above) and another one commit changes. FFM is > useful because while I'm doing thing in a window, I can rapidly move the > mouse to, say, IRC to answer and go back. I expect that from the mouse (and > focus) exit to the re-enter nothing happens. It is a bit like if I am typing > "rm -f *.log" in a xterm, move to another one after typing the "*", and > having the command executed...
As a fellow focus-follows-mouse user, I agree -- simply moving your mouse out of a widget should not apply changes. Committing an edit isn't something that should be done by an inadvertent action, like moving your mouse outside of the window/widget; it should take an explicit action (a save key/menu item, confirmation, or the like). -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
