Focus-follows-mouse and pass-window-activation-click

Julian Fitzell julian at beta4.com
Sat Nov 22 18:33:15 UTC 2003


Cees de Groot wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 11:58, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
>>>The two major annoyances to me in Squeak are that the above things
>>>aren't possible.
>>
>>Oh, well. They certainly are possible.
>>
> 
> Ok, 'available' ;-).
> 
> Thanks for the snippets. Why do you think that passing the click on
> stinks? Just curious, not argumentative...

Well, I very much like passing the click through, but you need to be 
careful that your window design provides enough non-active space that 
you can easily find somewhere to bring it to the front without 
activating it.  Windows windows, have the title bar, the status bar, the 
  right (empty) portion of the menu bar and toolbar, etc...  Squeak 
windows really only have the title bar (and the borders but they're hard 
to grab quickly).

Still, I'd very much like a configuration option for that behaviour 
because it definitely annoys me when it isn't there: I am constantly 
having to double click to do anything.

Julian




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