On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:24:41PM +0100, Abigail wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:13:00PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > > 2. The menu bar changes to match the focussed window. This obviates the > > issue you mentioned, but brings up a bigger one. Now you can't click on the > > menu bar because as soon as you leave the app you lose the menu bar! > Uhm, sloppy focus? When I use my Linux box (or in previous lifes, my > Solaris/HP/ or Cygwin box), my application doesn't lose focus, until my > mouse enters *another* application. Focus isn't lost by just having the > mouse leave the application. Of course, you'd still have a problem if you'd > have to travel over several other applications to reach the menu. > > To implement focus follows mouse on the Mac would require an alternate > > mechanism to bring up the menu bar. Such as making it a default contextual > > menu on the app.
On Windows I remember being able to bring up any menu I felt like, and to explore all the available menu options, using the keybaord. Alt-space, IIRC, to bring up the menu that had things like "kill this application" and "move this window", and then cursor keys to navigate around. This is obviously too complicated for Apple. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done
