On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:07 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
> On 03-04-2015, at 10:23 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The "power of pointing" is a wonderful UI gesture.  It's so energy
>> efficient for the user.  A simple nudge of the mouse can spawn a lot
>> of output and, then, simply moving away (one more nudge) reclaims all
>> the screen space.  Sometimes I like to pop up even /interactive/
>> panels my Maui apps by merely pointing.
>>
>> What is remarkable to me is how underrated it is.  I guess Windows'
>> click-for-focus pretty much blew it out of the water..
>>
> Except that it is an unholy pain if your pointing device has any reason to wander on its own; like a stiff cable, a sloping surface, an accidental nudge from a moving hand, a cat, an earthquake, psychokinetic leakage etc. All of which have annoyed me at some time.

Those are rare events compared to switching focus.  A minimally
competent input device setup such as a laptop with a trackpad would
reduce it from rare to never.