Re: panel focus
- From: "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>
- To: calum benson sun com, snickell stanford edu
- Cc: bill haneman sun com, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: panel focus
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:10:26 +0000 (GMT)
I have read all the mails in this thread.
I will have a look at what I can soon.
Padraig
>
> On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 05:00, Calum Benson wrote:
> > Seth Nickell wrote:
> >
> > > Cases where the focus should stay on the window that was active when the
> > > panel operation was started:
> >
> > Again, it's probably worth studying how Windoze/MacOS handles the
> > mouse/keyboard interaction on their panels in a bit more detail... but I
> > left my laptop at home today so I can't check right now.
> >
> > I would have a rather uneasy feeling about a functional design that
> > relied on so many special cases, though, it ususally points at a
> > fundamentally broken model somewhere higher up, and falls down later
> > when somebody needs to extend it in a way that wasn't anticipated. I
> > get the feeling we're just missing something obvious here that will
> > probably come to one of us in a flash of inspiration sometime soon :)
>
> I'm not sure I see how its particularly special cased. "Don't take focus
> from the window unless keynav is used or the widget on the panel needs
> focus to operate". Even if there is a better design long term, I wish
> our interim panel didn't have this rather annoying problem.
>
> -Seth
>
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