Re: beachball

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From: Luke A. Kanies
Subject: Re: beachball
Date: 12:07 on 28 Apr 2005
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:

> BeOS didn't _design_ their UI _around_ click-to-focus. They don't
> have floating panels that vanish when focus leaves their parent
> window, a floating menu bar that changes when the focus changes,
> and so on. There's 20 years of design around a different focus
> model you'd have to unwind or work around to make point-to-focus
> work in OS X.

Yep, I'm aware of that.  Strangely, that awareness has not reduced my hate 
considerably.

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