Re: beachball

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: beachball
Date: 21:31 on 26 Apr 2005
* On 2005.04.26, in <20050426045250.K5801@xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>,
*	"Ann Barcomb" <ann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 
> My experience is that I cannot minimise Safari while it is in beachball
> mode.  It eventually minimises once it gets out of beachball mode; I
> guess it queues minimising instead of treating it as an interrupt.

That's also the fault of the application-controls-UI hatrocity.  You
can't minimize it because Safari is responsible for responding to the
minimize event and minimizing itself.  But you can open-apple-tab
into Terminal, because the open-apple-tab goes straight into the
WindowServer.  (Hey, where did my closed-apple go?  Not that I miss the
bloody thing, but does this imply that the distinction was meaningless
all along?  Is that... *gasp* an admission of error?)


> And the last time I tried to bring something else to the forefront
> using the dock, Safari crashed.

Petulance.


> Of course, what I hate most about my mac is that I cannot opt for
> mouse-focus.  I despise click-focus and focus-to-forefront.

Yes, but you're wrong.  Hear Mr. Jobs.  Mr. Jobs is wiser than you.

Or me.


Speaking of this hate, I've done the terminal FFM thing (though I
found it while perusing the plist and changed it manually -- such gems
you find that way).  But it's still monstrously hateful.  If some
horrible, stupid application is running, like, say, Stuffit Expander
or Bluetooth File Exchange -- one of those transient bastards that
performs its task and closes its window, but remains running in the
foreground with its own menubar -- and you press open-apple-q to quit
it, what happens?  The bastard application doesn't close, no, because
Terminal has detected that your mouse is indicating its wish to focus on
Terminal.  So Terminal steals the event, despite the UI precedence of
the bastard application, and Terminal quits instead.

Lovely.  The many foothills of hate along this wilderness road are deep
and creviced.  The bandits jump out at you without warning, and when
they do, that's all she wrote.  You're lying along a wildnerness road in
deep and creviced foothills, wondering where the hell *that* came from.
The blazing indifference of the sun rains down.  Your breath evaporates
before you exhale.

-- 
 -D.    dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx        NSIT    University of Chicago
There's stuff above here

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