FC2 Desktop wishlist: fix metacity focus bug: 115072

[Marky Goldstein]

Fedora should target a well defined community response system and
bug free releases. Fedora is not RedHat's testing departement, I guess.
Else we should drop the edition.
Greets,
Marky


Trae McCombs wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 20:49, Havoc Pennington wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 10:46, Trae McCombs wrote:
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>>>http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115072
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>>So fix the bug (without introducing a different bug) - I tried, I didn't
>>have much luck.
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>If you didn't already know, I can not code.  So telling me to fix the
>bug is more than counter-productive.  I have contributed to the Free
>Software / Open Source community in other ways that I've been able to
>though.
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>That being put aside...  My main point was, and is: Should we allow
>broken software to permeate into Fedora.  
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>Just because you personally don't use Sloppy Focus with Click to Raise,
>doesn't make it any less important.  
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>>From a users interface point of view, this is one of the more intuitive
>focus methods.  Being forced to click on a title bar, or pressing the
>alt key, isn't exactly a very intuitive thing.  Clicking anywhere in a
>window to raise it, however, is. 
>
>I guess I'm still amazed that you would rather break a very useful
>feature in order to fix a bug that had been around for quite a while. 
>Why should a feature be lost at the expense of someone else's bug?  
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>Further notes:
>pekwm comes set with this focus mode by default.  I don't know how they
>have gotten around the "dhtml" bug where getting rid of this focus
>method fixes. (or if they did get around it).
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>*sigh*, I'm sure noone really cares about this, and most people that are
>missing this method of focus are probably just simply clicking on the
>title bar thinking it's something that could be fixed but that they
>can't find how to set the option.
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>Trae
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