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> the insane focus-follows-mouse option Is it that hard to believe some people prefer this behaviour?
by q3k 5y ago
> the insane focus-follows-mouse option
Is it that hard to believe some people prefer this behaviour?
- bigiain 5y ago> Is it that hard to believe some people prefer this behaviour? Not at all. But it's also really easy to see that giving someone used to one of those behaviours the opposite one - would make them unhappy.
- ryukafalz 5y agoWhich is why it’s good that this is configurable in Linux :)
- IshKebab 5y agoYes!
- thanatos519 5y agoApparently so ... I usually like insane, but I think click-to-focus is the actual insane thing. In the Mac case this is tightly coupled with mandatory raise-on-focus. That's my biggest pain when I try to work on a Mac. I bet no-raise-on-focus also sounds insane to the same people, but I only want a window to come to front when I as for it. The article even touches on a simple case of this in "Sometimes I want to keep the calculator on screen while I type an email. Is that too much to ask?"