On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:48 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
Cunningly hidden deep in some menu, Gnome has an option to enable
focus-follows-mouse. But their implementation is truly hideous.
In a decent window mangler, for example, windows only raise when you
click in certain areas of them - normally the title bar and borders.
Sorry, but I come from a Mac background and consequently have no
experience with this behavior or understanding of why I might desire
it. Can someone explain why this is preferable?
Using a menu or selecting text doesn't screw around with window z-
order.
Why is this important? And why aren't you using a global menu bar?
But in the Gnome world it does, and this makes me want to strangle
kittens.
Can you point me to the research showing the effect this has on user
efficiency, or failing that, at least a design document comparable to
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the Macintosh? Or is this
just an oral tradition passed on by those with their GUI well
poisoned by X11, who then complain when everybody else does it
differently?
Josh
