raise window on-click
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Wed Nov 26 02:40:49 UTC 2003
Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:07, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
>>Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
>>>What do you think of the strict focus idea?
>>
>>As a solution, it ignores the entire issue that under a default
>>configuration, users *are* going to miss alert-style dialogs if they're
>>typing when the dialog pops up.
>
> not really, the idea being the alert dialog still appears on top, but
> the focus remains where the mouse is pointing: the window you're typing
> in. Then its seen as soon as you look up (which is all the time if
> you're me). The only problem is to make sure the dialog doesn't pop up
> under the mouse.
That "solution" to the problem ignores the fact that most people won't
be using focus-strictly-under-mouse. The problem needs to be solved so
that it's no longer a problem regardless of how your focus is set up.
That's why I think it's a bad solution to a bigger problem. It's a
hack. It works fine for anyone using focus-strictly-under-mouse, but
fails to correct the problem for the majority of users.
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