Yes, it does speed it up.  I also noticed that when pulling a window
forward by clicking on the title bar, it picks up the window.  I think
that is what makes it seem sluggish...if I click elsewhere in the
window, it's a much cleaner and faster transition.  It would be nice if
clicking on the title of an inactive SystemWindow brought it forward,
but didn't pick it up (unless you move the a little bit).  I seem to
recall a discussion about this in the past.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Steve Swerling
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:21 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Performance of switching system window focus
> 
> 
> Stephen Pair wrote:
> > 
> > I was just looking back at squeak 2.5 and noticed that 
> switching the 
> > focus of system windows seems a whole lot faster than in 
> Squeak 3.1 & 
> > 3.2.  It doesn't seem like switching window focus should appear 
> > sluggish on a 1Ghz machine, but it does.
> > 
> > - Stephen
> 
> If you have not already done so, try turning off 
> "roundedWindowCorners" in the "windows" tab of preferences. 
> It speeds up window activation on my computer.
> 
>