Re: [Usability] Auto-raise windows while drag-drop engaged?

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 20:13 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> There is probably at least as much situations where this would result
> in unreachable windows as there are without it (read: it's not worth
> the hassle of windows popping up and down when you don't want them
> to).
> 
> Consider a smaller window on top (and fully inside the frame) of a
> larger window. You drag from a third window or even from the bigger
> window, if the only criteria is the position of the mouse.  Now what
> happens is that the small window is fully visible at the moment you
> start the drag, but there's no way you are going to get a chance to
> drop to that small window if the big one always pops over it. A
> waiting time of x milliseconds is not going to erase that problem,
> although it probably would lower the change of that happening. But it
> can still happen, and at least personally I would shoot the programmer
> after just one incident if I got the chance ;)

My thought was that, upon leaving the window that was raised, it would
be lowered back to its former position in the stack-- which would
probably have its own problems, but I don't think it would be as bad.