On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 02:52 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >         On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 15:05 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> >
> >         > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Bastien Nocera
> >         wrote:
> >         > > On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 08:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >         > > > On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:18 -0500, Michael Catanzaro
> >         wrote:
> >         > > > > I haven't seen an app menu (gmenu) discussion in quite
> >         some time, which
> >         > > > > is a bit surprising as more apps add them. 3.10 will
> >         be the fourth
> >         > > > > release featuring app menus, and by now most GNOME
> >         applications have
> >         > > > > one. But the only information on the GNOME wiki seems
> >         to have been
> >         > > > > written for GNOME 3.4, and there seem to be some
> >         issues and
> >         > > > > inconsistencies with the implementation throughout the
> >         project.
> >         > > >
> >         > > > I've been using GNOME all that time and I'd never
> >         noticed them.
> >         > > >
> >         > > > This is the one in the top panel which, with
> >         focus-follows-mouse,
> >         > >
> >         > > Which is exactly one of the reasons why
> >         focus-follows-mouse isn't an
> >         > > option we offer/isn't supported. There's probably plenty
> >         more things
> >         > > that don't work well with focus-follows-mouse, so finding
> >         creative
> >         > > solutions to those problems might be required.
> >         >
> >         >   This seems backward. F-f-m was here first,
> >
> >
> >         Was where first? In GNOME? In metacity? In Unix desktops? In
> >         Xerox Parc?
> >
> >         >  and is still being used by some
> >         > minority (me included).  Current designs break f-f-m
> >         functionality.  Your comment
> >         > about ”finding creative solutions” sounds like F-f-m was
> >         something new.
> >
> >
> >         It's not something new, it's something unsupported.
> >
> >         >   Designs were made in total ignorance of f-f-m.
> >
> >
> >         Because it's unsupported.
> >
> >
> >
> > As someone who works on mutter and gnome-shell, I'm curious: since
> > when is it unsupported? I've never heard anybody say this before.
>
> It's not the default, it's not togglable in System Settings, and it's
> not been designed for. That makes it unsupported.
>

We added special code for it in 3.6 after the result of user testing
finding issues with the application menu and focus-follows-mouse. We're
certainly not removing the code for it, and as far as I'm aware, it's still
a consideration for designers. That makes it supported.


> >         >   The requirement should be
> >         > restated as ”finding creative solutions for things that used
> >         to work”, i.e. things
> >         > that were already working, were ”solved”.
> >
> >
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