[577] in Athena User Interface
Re: No focus for newly-launched apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Jan 4 16:57:38 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:57:35 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200101042157.QAA02652@karst.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: aui@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:45:00
-0500 <200101032345.SAA417818@whack-a-mole.mit.edu>
Please ignore my offhand comment on "yes, change it thus". I hadn't
considered Tibbetts' scenario. I think the failure mode of unexpected
focus-on-create is worse than the failure mode of unexpected lack of
focus on creation, and that it's easy enough to change anyway.
(My personal religion is that focus should follow the mouse, clicking to
focus is utter anathema, and and new windows should *never* yank the
focus (or mouse) around, and that this all works very well together, but
since "that's not how PCs do it" I'm pretty much alone in this.)
