On 2009-09-05, Olivier Lecarme <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that the whole preceding thread is focused on the wrong point. > The initial writers want a "non-tool" because they want to click on the > image window without doing anything. But why do they want to click it? > Certainly only for giving it the focus.
Not necessarily. Maybe they want to modify the z-order... OR, maybe for them clicking on windows is just "a normal way of working with a computer", and when with ALL THE OTHER applications clicking is non-destructive, one does not want to modify one's habit if one of the 100 windows on the screen happens to be GIMP's one... [But the worst offender in this department is Hugin - there is no undo and no other way to switch off destructive results of clicking on the preview window. At least in 0.7...] > That means that they are doing it the wrong way, even if they are doing > this all the time. Oh, I hear a guru speaking... > With a decent window manager, you have the option to > give the focus to a window as soon as the mouse pointer is above it. So we finally got to "my window manager is bigger than yours" level? > With any window manager, you can focus on a given window by clicking on > its title bar, Try finding a title bar after f11... And anyway, the title bar is much smaller target than a window, so hitting it requires extra eye-muscle coordination. > or by using some key combination like Alt-TAB. Very intuitive, thank you! (Myself, I use Alt-Tab all the time, but not with GIMP - too many windows to choose from.) Yours, Ilya _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
