On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:57:33AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > The global menu bar was a hack to allow the one button mouse to work. > Every other window system in existence at the time used pop-up > contextual menus exclusively.
even NeXTstep allowed a right-click on the root window to bring up a menu without the global titlebar hack. it didn't allow cross-application focus-follows-mouse though. after years of vtwm, ctwm, afterstep, windowmaker, and flwm, all of which have sloppy focus-follows-mouse, I've been warped. NeXTstep had been my primary operating environment for a couple years in college, and as an experiment recently I tried running some gnustep apps under my standard windowmaker setup. I quickly realized that the right-click-on-desktop breaks with focus-follows-mouse. I hate it all, and wonder if I wouldn't be better re-potting the flyback transformer (to quiet the whine) on my ann arbor ambassador and just using that, except for that pesky web that most things require these days. w3m does a pretty damn good job at text rendering, but usability wise is often worse than a graphics head, so I have to hate that too. -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | [email protected]
