[578] in Athena User Interface
Re: No focus for newly-launched apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Jan 4 17:04:05 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:04:02 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
cc: <aui@mit.edu>
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, andrew m. boardman wrote:
> (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.)
You rollover-focus people. Bah :) What do you do when you suddenly get
engrossed in editing or typing long text and you shove the mouse out of
the way to get rid of that distracting cursor and suddenly you're not
typing in the correct window anymore?
But I'm just being a pest. Actually, I'm with you and tibbetts on which
one has the worse consequences as well, especially since I discovered
today (researching this whole kettle of fish) how to set the behavior *I*
like with no penalty to anyone else. So I change my vote. Leave it as is.
-t
