On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:14:52 +0200, Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Before the change, I could left click anywhere in a window, including decorator, and it would do the same : focus the window. And right click would alwaysfocus and raise. Now the left click will raise if Iclick on the border, but not if I click anywhere elsein the window. This make it somewhat harder to raise a window if you can't see its tab, as you have to point the border which is quite small. This only for the sake of making thismode work like the others,which I don't use anyway, so it doesn't bring much to me.
Why was the behavior of this mode changed so drastically? In [1], a number of people have stated that they find the click-to-focus mode useful. I don't think it's fair to just change its fundamental behavior and say that it is better from some arbitrary point of view.
Wouldn't it make more sense to add an extra mode? Of course, I understand you want the number of modes to be limited, but where do you draw the line? Is there really a difference between offering three or four modes? If you really want consistent behavior, don't offer multiple modes.
Maybe the modes should be split up into more basic switches? But that might result in some odd combinations.
Regards, Brecht[1] //www.freelists.org/post/haiku/Mouse-Click-to-focus-mode-what-is-it-for
