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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.
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