[openbox] [ANNOUNCE] Openbox-3.0-beta6 released

[Ryan Freeman]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:54:18 -0400
Ben Jansens <ben at orodu.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:48:33PM -0500, Mike wrote:
> > >Popups can be disabled again in CVS already. And I'm still mulling
> > >over window placement :)
> > 
> > I know the stuff in my patch isn't exactly beautiful, but it's
> > simple and works.
> > 
> > If there were numerous window placement methods, assigning a focus
> > function when the config is read might work ok. place_transient() ||
> > place_dialog() 
> > || place->type() || place_random(). But that's not the case. Since
> > |there's 
> > only 2 and it doesn't sound like there's much interest in focus
> > follows mouse anymore, I dunno.
> 
> I'm trying hard to make things "just work" rather than have 500
> options to tweak. But it seems some people don't want smart placement
> at all. I'm not sure if I should just provide a boolean for this or
> not.
> 
> Interest in focus follows mouse? Personally I think its a horrible
> thing,

eep, please don't ever remove focus follows mouse! its the only setting
i'm used to now :) great for when i'm typing in one window and i just
want to type in another window right underneath, but not bring it to the
top.

> designed for a simple implementation, not for good usability. However,
> Openbox supports it. I don't see how that changes whether there should
> be a lot of placement schemes or not.
> 
> Ben
> 

- ryan

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