OT: Mark made my day!

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Eric Dunbar 

| > Having used both click-to-focus and focus-follows-mouse, I find the
| > latter to be more useable and efficient. Click-to-focus also has the
| > problem of being modal. That first click in a window can have different
| > behaviour to a second click in exactly the same spot, depending on where
| > the focus is. Being a focus-follows-mouse person for most of my GUI
| > experience, I find click-to-focus unnerving - I always have to find a
| > benign spot to click when I want to change focus due to the cognitive
| > dissonance caused by clicking on something but have it do nothing.
| 
| Focus-follows-mouse is a "niche" market which will never catch on
| simply because it adds too much clutter to the computer using
| experience. And, the "exception" or "niche" should never be that which
| drives GUI design.

A problem here is that focus follows mouse and per-application menu
bar on top of the screen is mutally exclusive.  (I've tried it with
Mac OS and it really, really sucks.)

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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