[575] in Athena User Interface
Re: No focus for newly-launched apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Jan 4 10:19:00 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:18:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>
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> Personally, I don't find the lack of focus-on-create annoying. People
> in usability testing seemed to realize immediately that they needed to
> click on the new program for it to get keyboard focus.
Aha! Remember when I said after Janet's usability test that, using GNOME
on a daily basis, I seemed to be clicking-for-focus more than usual and it
was throwing me off, but I wasn't sure how that could be? This is why.
While I would normally have to click on a window for focus even B.G.
(Before GNOME) - I hate rollover focus and turned it off long ago -
normally a just-opened window WOULD grab focus by default. I vote to
change GNOME's behavior to the latter.
