[haiku-development] Re: Focus Follows Mouse
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:20:23 +0200 CEST
> > Speaking of best defaults... is there support for focus-follows-
> > mouse
> > in Haiku ? I can't use any windowing system without it ...
> > I'm not sure if it should be enabled by default, but I don't see a
> > single case where it gets in the way when doing something or any
> > other
> > bad effect... (as long as you also disable raise-on-focus)
>
> You can enable it in the Mouse preflet. Another bad placement of an
> option
> which we inherited from BeOS... I can tell from experience with
> eXposer
> users in the university that enabling it by default will give some
> trouble.
> Mostly people move the mouse away when they want to type something
> into a
> window and then they type elsewhere. They will get used to it
> eventually,
> but it's an unnecessary annoyance. Ingo may chime in with his own set
> of
> FFM-gripes.
FFM is really useful, you can't play two tetris at once without it!
Btw, you don't seem to have line wrapping enabled in your MUA...
François.
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