[haiku-development] Re: For a better autoraise
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:36:23 +0200 CEST
"Alexandre Deckner" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As has been mentioned several times on the mailing lists, the current
> autoraise feature (as seen with Deskbar, but that should be standard/
> shared) could be perfected. Well it's really annoying in fact ;)
Agreed. One could also thing about introducing a window flag for this,
though (like a B_AUTO_ACTIVATE_WINDOW).
> Here is my last (stupid?:-)) idea:
> - Raise when the mouse is over a visible part of the target (or
> screen
> edges if invisible) for over a threshold time.
> - For the impatients that can't wait for the threshold, raise when
> shaking rapidly the mouse along the screen edges (and visible parts
> maybe too).
>
> I don't know if i'm clear, but i think it could satisfy everyone and
> is
> pretty intuitive (shake to wake). A similar gesture could also be
> used
> to mean "hurry-up" for autoscrolls in menus or (drag'n')drop
> autoscrolling.
I wouldn't mind a hotkey either for scrolling, but in general, I think
it's definitely worth a try, and would be intuitive to use, too.
Bye,
Axel.
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