-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Nickurak wrote on 14/06/11 19:33: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:27, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com >... >> That isn't correct. I specified how it could work with focus follows >> mouse in May 2010, months before Natty even had a name. >> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#focus-follows-mouse> > > Except that's missing design work too. There's no concept of the > "active" window anywhere. There's no visual cue of what the "active" > window is. Until that article, the concept didn't exist.
Defining things that didn't previously exist is part of the point of a feature specification. :-) > It's > inconsistent, because the window that you might be working with is no > longer the window that "has" the global menu. Imagine that you have 2 > windows that don't overlap, and you've focused one by mouse-over. > There's now *zero* indication that the global menu isn't related to the > focused window. Select a destructive action like File:Revert or Delete > is now a very scary and unpredictable concept. >... Yes, that would be the price of wanting to use focus-follows-mouse in an environment that has a global menu bar: you would have to remember which is the active window for yourself. If you don't want to do that, don't use it. - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk34wBwACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecppgACgn32eYDbgTUAGUeewmDx8Jo2y I7oAn3Fd78SFjP2eYQCWFwzzRzYBiPH3 =cg8X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
