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Re: option-click hides apps
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Re: option-click hides apps


  • Subject: Re: option-click hides apps
  • From: m <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:32:13 -0700

On Jun 15, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Steve Checkoway wrote:

Command clicking would work just as easily (it requires changing all of one constant I believe). The problem is that command clicking has a (in my opinion) more useful feature: selecting individual items in a list. Control was similarly ruled out for it's behavior as right click. (Why can't Apple just ship 3 button mice like the rest of the world?) I could get exotic and require multiple buttons. The goal is to eventually have this customizable, but right now, I'd like to just get the core set of features (there aren't that many after all) working first.

[etc]

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but wouldn't it be easier to just move to the platform you are trying to emulate than to change the behavior of a platform with different design goals?

I might add that hacking things so that a window doesn't have to be active for it to be, um, active violates assumptions that the underlying code may have about the relationship between active windows and the models they present. Which is to say, you will find that applications won't behave as you expect if you change the windowing model to something the applications don't expect, making all your efforts pointless.

_murat
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