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To your last paragraph, my favourite thing about Mac is how if you click a window that doesn't have focus, the click ONLY makes the window focused. If you click
by Mavvie 5y ago
To your last paragraph, my favourite thing about Mac is how if you click a window that doesn't have focus, the click ONLY makes the window focused. If you clicked on a button, it doesn't actually click the button.
A similar thing is what happens when you touch a phone when it dims right before sleeping. Some OSes only let the touch restore brightness, while others will do that AND register a tap wherever you touched. Super annoying IMO.
- aqfamnzc 5y agoI think I it would bother me to have to click twice when working back and forth between two windows. Maybe another approach could be to only register the click action if there is no overlap? Then again, the inconsistency would probably be frustrating with that approach.
- dijit 5y agoFun to see this come up because it is one of my biggest annoyances when switching between MacOS and Linux. I have focus follows mouse on Linux so it might be an exaggerated problem, but it’s annoying to click a text box and it not actually select the text box. There is an option in yabai for focus follows mouse, but I had to disable yabai because it’s really awkward and perceptibly slow on macos.
- deanCommie 5y agoFunny, I use windows and Mac interchangeably, and I completely prefer the windows model. I use 3 monitors for both, and frequently multi task and the extra click on Mac infuriates me.
- sersi 5y agoYes, it's a good feature for ease of use and makes things less confusing for my mum but I wish I could change that on Mac.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoA really useful feature on MacOS is that you can scroll a window that doesn't have focus by hovering over it and using a mouse with a scroll wheel/surface. MS - and especially Windows - has always seemed to me a company that takes smart people and makes them do really stupid things. The product culture seems incredibly broken. It's never been great. But in the past usable versions like XP and 7 would fall out. 8 set a new baseline for idiocracy and user hostility. I see no evidence things have gotten better since. I suppose - as per earlier comments here - if the culture is top-down design by people who don't even use the product and are trying to Make a Statement for career reasons, the future isn't encouraging. The real question is what kind of management allows something so obviously nonsensical to happen.
- CRConrad 5y ago> A really useful feature on MacOS is that you can scroll a window that doesn't have focus by hovering over it and using a mouse with a scroll wheel/surface. Yeah, Windows has had that too for a while now. Dunno for sure how long; some five years (or eight? Ten?), I'd guess.
- mcswell 5y agoCitrix (a remote desktop app) breaks that; apparently no mouse scrolls are sent to an app on the remote desktop until you click in the Citrix window.. Thunderbird partially breaks it: I just tried with TBird in the background: scrolling the list of emails (that works) and the text of a selected email (does not work).
- dthul 5y agoDid that behavior change at some point? I'm on Big Sur and clicking on an unfocused window will focus it and trigger whatever button your mouse landed on. Edit: it seems to depend on the kind of button(?)
- tomovo 5y agoNative buttons and sliders have click-through enabled by default. Users can also ⌘-click to press buttons in background windows without changing the focus.
- Someone 5y agoThe developer can make a choice there. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nswindow https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nswindow: > var worksWhenModal: Bool > A Boolean value that indicates whether the window is able to receive keyboard and mouse events even when some other window is being run modally. I think there are flags for doing that for non-modal ‘other windows’, too.