Truth be told, I never used focus "FFP" more than a few times out of curiosity. I'd be interested why people turn it on and how it helps them with their workflow.
In GNOME there are two relevant settings. One immediately focuses the window beneath the pointer. Additionally you can make the window rise after a given time interval. (See System Settings -> Windows). To me the latter doesn't really make sense, raise on click will be faster except when you set it to "0.0" in which case, especially on a busy desktop it will get in your way. Without the rise feature enabled you only get focus which doesn't help you with mouse interaction if the desired controls are behind another window. I guess it could make sense for keyboard shortcuts but then you'd have your hands on the keyboard and could use even faster keyboard combos to activate the desired window. On really busy workstations you probably don't have all windows visible all the times so the new Unity spread view should increase the efficiency even if ffp was completely removed. I guess this leaves tiling layouts where all windows are visible all the times. In this case all I can say: You really should use a realy tiling WM and if you really care about speed and efficiency best thing you could do is throw out your mouse and learn the keyboard controls. Well that's how I see it. Please enlighten me! On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Jeremy Nickurak <jer...@nickurak.ca> wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:29, GonzO <go...@worlord.com> wrote: >> >> Is it? I mean, how many people use "Focus follows pointer"? >> I haven't seen anyone with that config in a dog's age. > > Speaking as a developer at a linux-centric branch of a major company, > focus-follows-mouse is pretty much universal here. It doesn't matter much > for users that typically only have one or two windows open, but when you > have a busy workflow, it's a huge advantage. > > -- > Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -= jer...@nickurak.ca =- > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
