Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] Feature request summary 1/27

[Not Zed <NotZed Ximian com>]

The focus follow mouse thing is a window manager feature, which doesn't
translate to things happening inside top-level windows (i.e. the
application window).  Yes it could be implemented (as a totally separate
feature to the wm feature), but that could be confusing as it would work
somehwhat differently to most every other application.



On 30 Jan 2001 13:12:50 +0000, Paul Coates wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2001 22:59:50 -0500, Duncan Mak wrote:
> > hey!
> >
> > i'm in a hurry now, so I'll keep this short (but the list is long!)
> >
> > It's been a while now, and I finally caught up with everything. This is
> > the current wishlist and request summary.
> >
> > It seems like from recent evolution@ activity, the number of requests
> > are slowly declining, which is probably a good thing(tm), because we're
> > doing the right thing and the features are working well.
> >
> > 0.9 is now frozen... so review this list, and send in requests for 0.10!
>
>     OK, here's a request for 0.10 that catches me out every time I use
>     Evolution.
>     I use focus follows mouse in my window manager rather than click to
>     focus, so
>     when I'm reading mail and I go for the down arrow to scroll down a
>     message I
>     end up scrolling through several messages or folders as the focus in
>     one of the
>     other panes. I would like the option to have focus follow mouse or
>     keep the existing
>     click to focus action. This should be quite easy to do with
>     ENTER_NOTIFY events
>     on the panes.
>
>     Paul
>
>  
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