I mostly work like Philipp, so I'll say "me too" and then address some comments below:
On Tue, 31 May 2011 21:13:51 +0200 Ed Lin wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Philipp Wendler > <ubu...@philippwendler.de> wrote: > I still have some troubles understanding how focused but > overlapped windows are useful in your three cases but obviously > it works for you. First, Ed, I appreciate that you can appreciate that people work differently. That's largely what this is about. One example where overlapping is nice is when I have a large code window, but want a small terminal window open (to compile, for example). Very often, I can find some space in the code window that I am not looking at, and plop a terminal there. If I were to tile it, I would lose an entire vertical or horizontal strip the size of the terminal, when I really just need a a little bit of screen for it. > Couldn't this be solved simply by making all windows behave the > same way: first click focuses and rises (gets trapped by the WM), > subsequent clicks get sent to the application window. You could, but that's an entire extra click! Sounds crazy, but for the very efficient that makes a difference. I'd rather just slide my mouse over it and start typing. Why click when i don't need to? And I definitely don't like windows that raise just because I am working in them. I want to be able to copy text from a big window and into the email i may be writing w/o the big window covering the email. > > So please, keep FFP useable! > > I think as long as Ubuntu largely depends on GNOME and other 3rd > party for its apps you will be able to use it without a global > menu and therefore keep using FFP. Except for the "I can't rename or delete a file on the desktop" bug. I did turn off the global menu, but that doesn't solve the fact that you can't give the desktop focus if another window still has it. Oh, here's another example: I am composing an email, but can still go check for mail before sending w/o the client covering up this window. Oops, now people will try to convince me i need to switch to web mail and stop using a client! :) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
