FC5: first impressions

Willem Riede wrrhdev at riede.org
Mon Mar 27 23:21:46 UTC 2006


On 03/27/2006 12:48:20 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Willem Riede wrote:
> >
> > So there are different use cases, and at least an option will allow people to 
> > select the behavior that best fits them. FWIW I'm not convinced the ideal 
> > algorithm has been discovered, or is even possible, as if you ask me to 
> > define when I want a new window to come up with focus and when not, the 
> > answer is "that depends on what I want to do with it"...
> 
> Amen. Whether you want something to start focused or not depends 100% on 
> what you want to do with it *at that moment*. With browsers this is easy:
> just open up stuff in new tabs as you encounter interesting links, and 
> then process the tabs eventually. The computer could never, ever know 
> whether I want to read that link immediately or later so the decision has 
> to be mine. Simple enough, left-click or middle-click.
> 
> Maybe this is just a crack idea from a caffeine deprived mind but what if 
> left click meaned start with focus and middle click start without focus? 
> It's kinda similar to the open in new tab-case from browsers and I think 
> that concept has already shown it works and isn't beyond the grasp of the 
> so called "average use" either ;)

I like it. But it doesn't cover the case of guis started from a terminal.
Perhaps there if I type "application" it gets focus and if I type "application &" 
(which implies I want to be able to do other things in the terminal) it doesn't?

Regards, Willem Riede.




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