[openbox] sloppy focus "stealing"

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Sat, 21 May 2011 17:21:28 -0700
Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:
| On Sat, 21 May 2011 23:51:21 +0200
| Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com> wrote:
| 
| Ian>  If you feel this way about it, maybe you shouldn't provide the
| Ian> option at all.  Otherwise you'll always have people like me
| Ian> complaining because you're not willing to accept patches to
| Ian> actually make it work.
| 
| Mikael> Sorry, when did I say I didn't accept patches?
| 
| You said "it's hard to imagine how such a thing could work", which I
| took to mean roughly "I will try hard to find something wrong with any
| patch to implement this."  Was I wrong?
| 
| On a more substantive note perhaps, it is true that focus-follows-mouse
| is very different from click-to-focus.  So different that changing a few
| code paths here and there depending on the flag is probably not enough
| to really make it work.
| 

That is true.  As is just how strict the follow mouse is.

For example 'warping mouse' is to my thinking bad idea, though for
keyboard window manage management that is a good thing!

screen sizes are such that loosing track of your mouse pointer is
becomming a very common problem.


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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