Re: [Usability] Panel-dockable menubar now possible?

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

> AFAIR the main hurdle has always been that it's hard (if not 
> impossible)
> to make such a thing work smoothly for focus-follows-mouse users, yet at
> the same time it's too different from the current interaction model to
> have both of them co-exist and switchable by a user preference.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
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> CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
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> 
> Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems

Maybe it would work to have the menubar shown at the top switched by a mouse 
click or keyboard activity in a window, instead of window focus when the WM is
in sloppy focus mode, and maybe there could be a time delay as well(such as if a 
window is focused for ten seconds, then its menubar gets switched up, but if it's
just moused over for half a second, the menubar would stay low)

Just tossing out ideas here, sorry if they've already been suggested.