Stephen Langer wrote:
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> On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Rich Cook wrote:
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>> I don't follow you. So what if you switch apps, that's the idea of
>> "focus follows mouse," right? I don't see that being a show-stopper
>> for Aqua. I think Apple has just as usual decided we "don't need that
>> feature." That's the downside of Apple. I'm experiencing lots of
>> "Apple doesn't think I need that" with my new iPhone too. :-|
>
> If your mouse is in a window for App A, and you want to move it to the
> menu bar, but all of the space between App A's windows and the menu bar
> is filled by the windows of App B, then you won't be able to get to App
> A's menus. As soon as you move the mouse off of App A's windows, App
> B's menu bar will appear.
No. Focus follows mouse has two parameters which can be set to ignore any
window you move the mouse through without stopping and to not change focus if
you move the mouse to the background.
>
> If the menu bars were attached to the apps' windows, and not fixed at
> the top of the screen, then focus-follows-mouse would work.
It works anyway. I used the previously mentioned VirtualDesktop from CodeTek on
my PB. Worked fine.
The truth is that Apple decided users don't need focus follows mouse and did not
include it. (FWIW - MS Windows 2000/xp/Vista supports focus follows mouse. MS
just left out the config tool to turn it on. You may download the app to
configure it from MS's site. Apple is the lone holdout.)
michael
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