Re: Menus (pointer focus)
- From: "Zow" Terry Brugger <zow pensive llnl gov>
- To: Kero van Gelder <gelderk natlab research philips com>
- cc: gnome-list <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Menus (pointer focus)
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:23:21 -0800
> Ehm, I don't think any user will like pointer-focus when using one
> global menu. When I would try to use the global menu, I would need a
Then they should set their WM to do click-to-focus. I know fvwm2 & AfterStep
can do it and I imagine that most other current WM's can.
> free path over the background, otherwise I would activate another
> application, thus loosing the settings of the global menu that I
> wanted to use.
>
> How did apple solve that? Do they actually have a pointer-focus?
>
Nope, they use a click-to-focus or select the app from a pull-down menu of
running apps.
> +--- Kero ------------------ kero@dds.nl ---+
-"Zow"
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