On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 06:54:18PM +0000, Robert Rothenberg wrote: > On 27/12/06 23:24 David King wrote: > > Why is it that nobody can write a decent focus model?... > > Ah, that reminds me of a UI hate: have the focus follow the mouse. > Extremely useful, until the app you are using shows a popup, which > disappears because you didn't immediately move your mouse over it.
there's focus follows mouse, and there's focus does autoraise. I hate the second in conjunction with the first, as it causes exactly the problem you describe. focus follows mouse makes it easy to shuffle contexts without undue clicking, but breaks UIs where multiple focusable elements are dependent on each other. focus follows mouse isn't practical in OSX since the menu bar at the top of the screen is dependent on the current application with focus, and if there happen to be windows of other applications between yours and the menu bar, the menu bar will change on the way to click it. I hate that bad. it was one of the things that pissed me off with macOS, and it was kept for OSX. -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | [email protected] "silly brewer, saaz are for pils!" -- virt
