[squeak-dev] mouseOverForKeyboardFocus default for 4.5

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 11:22:59 UTC 2014


I do not like mouseOverForKeyboardFocus verymuch.
It's to easy to lose the keyboard focus and then lose consentration.

Cheers,
Karl




On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Tim Felgentreff
<timfelgentreff at gmail.com>wrote:

> Click-to-focus annoys me so much that it was one of the reasons I
> switched from Mac to Linux on my MacBook back when I still had one.
> That being said, I'm fine with it being a preference that I can change
> (an option Mac OS did not have.)
>
> My reason for setting click-to-focus by default would be that in my
> experience with undergrad students exposed to Squeak in the last few
> years, focus-follows-mouse has been a major issue for many. People who
> know and want focus-follows-mouse tend to take a look if they can
> enable it. I found that people who do not know there are different
> focus behaviors than "what Windows/Mac/Unity does" don't look.
>
> So, while I won't use it, in the interest of keeping the entry hurdle
> low, I support switching to click-to-focus by default.
>
> cheers
> -Tim From: Ron Teitelbaum
> Sent: 24/01/2014 04:18
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list; ma.chris.m at gmail.com
> Subject: RE: [squeak-dev] mouseOverForKeyboardFocus default for 4.5
>
>
> > tim Rowledge
> >
> >
> > On 23-01-2014, at 5:47 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If hands are typing on the keyboard, the mouse is off to the side, so
> > > getting accidentally bumped would be pretty rare occurrence.
> >
> > Actually I suspect otherwise. I've plenty of experience of a mouse cable
> causing
> > it to drift away from where it ought to be, or simply knocking it.
>
> +1 happens all the time.  I had to write code that centers the mouse when
> the app starts so it would be on the screen, and code to move the mouse
> away
> from menus when they are active just so that I can properly support menu
> keys.  Seems like I'm always hacking the mouse to support simple behaviors.
>
>
> >
> >
> > tim
>
>
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