Window Focus (was Re: beachball)

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From: Luke A. Kanies
Subject: Window Focus (was Re: beachball)
Date: 10:51 on 28 Apr 2005
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:

> AUGH
>
> I hadn't noticed that in the brief period that I played with focus policy
> on the Mac. I can see two reasonable ways that Terminal could implement
> FFM. It could let the OS manage focus unless it was the foreground
> application, and when it was it could take over. Or it could make its
> window come to the foreground when the pointer came into its domain, in
> which case the app's menu bar would have gone back to Terminal's.
>
> This third option seems to be the worst of all worlds... what was Apple
> thinking of?

Codetek seems to be completely random in its focus, and I'm often just 
surprised as hell at how my computer behaves.  I flip workspaces, hit a 
key combo, and, um, wonder what the hell is going on.  OS X apps are great 
with this:  I'm using iChat, I flip to my Safari's workspace and hit 
Command-T (to open a new tab), which instead opens the Font window.  Oh 
crap, I don't want that, so I hit Command-W to close the window, except 
the font window isn't a real window, so instead you just closed the chat 
window.

Hey, thanks, that's exactly what I wanted.

This is definitely one of the things keeping me from switching to a mac 
for my main desktop.

-- 
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it 
happens.  -- Woody Allen
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