Re: Global menubar (was Re: #4 on ToDo list: make the top panel prettier)

[Eugene Gorodinsky <e gorodinsky gmail com>]

An alternative would be to disable focus-follows-mouse when switching
to the global menu bar layout. My opinion is that nobody uses their
computer in the same way, so the desktop environment should not try to
impose any kind of limitations on the user, flexibility is key in
winning the users' hearts. That means gnome should provide both ways
to interact "out of the box" as well as an easy way to configure it.

2009/1/27 Jonas Jørgensen <jj qio dk>:
> 2009/1/27 Brian Fleeger <brianfleeger yahoo com>:
>>>You seem to assume click-to-focus.
>>>How would you deal with focus-follows mouse?
>>
>> You are correct in that I was assuming most users would be using
>> click-to-focus.  However, even with focus-follows mouse, where the focus
>> automatically shifts to whichever window over which the mouse moves, the
>> menu could still keep up with the changing active windows.  In that sense,
>> it would be just like click-to-focus behavior.
>
> You're forgetting one thing: If the menus would change with the focus
> when using focus-follows-mouse, then when I'm working in a window in
> the lower right corner, accessing the menu becomes a game of having to
> avoid any other window on my path to the menu, otherwise that would be
> focused and the menu would switch. Clearly not acceptable.
>
> When using focus-follows-mouse, the menu would probably have to wait
> until the window is clicked or the first keystroke goes to it...?
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