Re: Dropping sloppy focus support - how soon?

[Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões <albie alfarrabio di uminho pt>]

Entering the discussion, if the reason to remove sloppy focus is their 
bugs, then we must remove all gnome :-)

Now, seriously, it is better to have it with bugs than to make people 
change to other window managers :-)

Just my 5 cents.
Alb

Rob Adams wrote:
> 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
>
>
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