mouse wheel grabs focus

Peter Gückel gueckelp at telus.net
Fri Feb 9 19:55:32 UTC 2007


On February 9, 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 19:19, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Teo Fonrouge wrote:
> > > Better yet, you can configure KDE (under "Window Behavior -> Focus" in
> > > the Control Center) to make the current focused window follow the
> > > mouse. So you just need to move the mouse over that window again.
> >
> > "Focus follows mouse" is one of the worst ideas a GUI designer
> > ever had.
>
> Horses for courses, Mike
>
> Anne

I use focus follows mouse. It works very well. It takes some time to adapt, 
and one has to set the time long enough so that windows don't unexpectedly 
swap position or slip behind when one doesn't react quickly enough. It's 
great.

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