Re: Window List panel - irritating behavior (clicks ignored)



On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:35 +0000, Sean Dynan wrote:
> On 2/6/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:01 +0000, Sean Dynan wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > We use CentOS 4.4 in our development shop and those of us running
> > > Gnome suffer really irritating behavior from our Window List panels
> > > (version 2.8.1).
> > >
> > > 9 times out of 10, when an application icon is clicked in the Window
> > > List, the mouse click fails to bring the application to the
> > > foreground. Mousing over the icon highlights the icon okay, but

Probably the mouse event is not being captured , or the mouse click is
not over the application icon.

metacity might be helpful here to trace where the clicks are being
focused, afaik.


> > > clicking on it very rarely activates the app. If we click 'more
> > > slowly' then the problem isn't exhibited. But we find it hard to
> > > believe the Window List panel is missing 'fast' mouse click events.
> > how fast is fast , and how slow is slow ?
> > As humanely as possible, i could reproduce this 10/10 times.
> 
> Slow == maybe half a second.
> Fast == as fast as possible. You know the kind of thing: when you're
> whizzing around the UI and you're rapidly clicking on widgets. That
> sort of 'fast'.
> 
> My best stab-in-the-dark guess is that there is a slight mouse motion
> detected as well as the click and the UI interprets that as an attempt
> to move the icon off the panel. So it is ignored.
> 
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Ritesh Khadgaray
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