Re: Dropping sloppy focus support - how soon?

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

I don't think that we'll be dropping sloppy focus any time soon.  Aside
from the fact that I personally use sloppy focus, I'd be worried for my
personal safety if I took it out.

That said, there are some unfixable bugs associated with sloppy focus,
that can't be solved without changes to the X protocol specification.

-Rob

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 23:48, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 05:22, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> > What is preventing GNOME from dropping sloppy focus support?
> 
> Apart from the huge number of bug reports about Red Hat's evil plans to
> dumb down GNOME, I will personally hunt you down, and kill you.
> 
> Metacity from CVS seems to work well enough for me -- it even has
> click-anywhere-to-raise enabled unlike the tarballs.
> 
> Are there any bugs which summarise the breakage sloppy-focus causes?
> Would it be possible to have a "working" metacity in click-to-focus, but
> acknowledge in the documentation that sloppy focus is less-than-perfect?
> 
> Ross