From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: Re: master 127ab231be 1/2: Attempt to clarify Input Focus documentation
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:25:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmczbopx5s.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d1b683c220e3aaa4d07@heytings.org> (Gregory Heytings's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:19:06 +0000")
On Sep 21 2022, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> The focus-follows-mouse policy is indeed superior for advanced users, but
> I think it must be admitted that it isn't appropriate for regular
> users. It breaks the "desk" mental model, with which you always act on the
> topmost element, which is the one that is fully visible. With the
> focus-follows-mouse policy you can act on any element that is partly
> visible, but that means that you can e.g. type on the keyboard without
> seeing any visible effect on the screen.
Though this is the raise-on-focus option, which is independent from
focus-follows-mouse vs. click-to-focus.
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[not found] ` <20220920151239.61451C00871@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-09-21 2:23 ` master 127ab231be 1/2: Attempt to clarify Input Focus documentation Po Lu
2022-09-21 9:14 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-21 10:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-21 10:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-21 10:51 ` Po Lu
2022-09-21 10:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-21 11:43 ` Po Lu
2022-09-21 10:58 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-21 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 11:56 ` Po Lu
2022-09-21 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 16:19 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-09-21 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 17:23 ` Drew Adams
2022-09-21 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 21:37 ` Drew Adams
2022-09-22 2:54 ` Po Lu
2022-09-21 14:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-21 15:25 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2022-09-21 15:53 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-22 4:29 ` tomas
2022-09-22 6:53 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-22 5:42 ` Po Lu
2022-09-21 12:07 ` Visuwesh
2022-09-21 15:06 ` tomas
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