Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> > ClickToFocus.
> >
> > The WindowList shows, say Xterms as window 1 and 3, Netscape as window 2.
> > Focus on Netscape. Alt/L - goto URL dialog comes up - type type type,
> > Enter - dialog goes away AND FOCUS RETURNS TO WINDOW 1, NOT TO NETSCAPE.
> > Maddening. Any solution?
>
> I have just patched the current delevopment sources. This will be in the
> next version.
That's odd, because I couldn't reproduce the problem, using last
night's CVS.
I concluded that this had to be caused by one of two things. Either
there's a mix of ClickToFocus and MouseFocus windows (the mouse cursor
is resting atop a MouseyFocus window when the transient disappears), or
Phil clicked on the xterm-1 window while the transient NS dialogue was
up, altering the order of the last-focused chain.
Phil -- is either of these the case in your situation?
Dominik -- I see what you did to change this behavior. I'm not sure I'm
100% convinced that it's always what is wanted in case number 2. I can
easily picture a case where it is not.
Say I have a window like the one I'm typing this message in at the
moment, which covers most of Netscape's browser window. Suppose that the
message I'm replying to contains a couple of URL's that I want to check.
I click File->Open Page in the browser window. I don't force windows to
raise on the focus click, so the window I'm typing in isn't obscured.
The transient dialogue appears, I select the URL and paste it into the
dialogue, and hit enter. I'd really rather have focus return to the
window I was typing in while NS loads that graphics-laden,
singing-dancing page over a slow link.
It's sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, because
we can't really know for sure just which window a user considers the
most important at the moment - particularly if he has oddball habits
like mine.
For the mouse-focus case, I suppose this is the more intuitive way to
behave - I only use Mouse/SloppyFocus occasionally, so I'm not a good
judge.
I guess we'll just have to see over the next few days whether anyone
finds this a significant annoyance, in which case it should probably be
made optional.
- Bob
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Received on Thu May 06 1999 - 23:32:29 BST