[4738] in testers
Re: gnome focus issues, sawfish configurator, and xlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Sat Jun 9 01:59:30 2001
Message-Id: <200106090556.BAA13344@byte-me.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu, pbh@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jun 2001 00:31:13 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 01:56:13 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
> I think we have focus-click-through set to nil for a reason--it's
> consistent with Windows, and it means users don't accidentally do
> something when they give a window focus.
Though I was pretty sure Windows behaved in the way I described, it's been
a little while since I've done such a test (when I use it now - rarely - I
click a non-button area to only gain focus), so I asked Paul. We performed
a test - we tried with dialogs from both MS Internet Explorer and Leash32 -
and I was right... he said I should say that. 8-)
According to Paul, it is possible for developers to create Windows dialogs
from scratch and have clicking a button only focus the window, but any program
using the common control library, which is the overwhelming vast majority of
applications, will pass the action through to the button. Since the way
Sawfish is currently behaving by default is inconsistent with Windows and
passing the click through is consistent, I believe this is what most users
will expect, and request that you reconsider accepting the patch to do it.
Thanks for your time,
Mitch
