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- From: mike@CIS.Prime.COM (Mike Causer)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Click to Raise Windows vs. Point to Rais
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.104126.11247@medusa.prime.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 10:41:26 GMT
- References: <2844@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>
- Sender: news@medusa.prime.com
- Reply-To: mike@CIS.Prime.COM
- Organization: Computervision R&D Ltd
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- In article 2844@tau-ceti.isc-br.com, jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) writes:
- > Also, bumping the mouse with your elbow by accident is not harmful
- > when the mouse works the ONE TRUE WAY.
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- Where _do_ you keep your mouse?
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- Why force users one way or the other? As a long-term SunView user
- (forced to OpenWindows now), I prefer to have point-to-focus, but
- "raising" as an explicit action. Any "reasonable" window manager would
- allow separate choices for these. In particular, any WM that
- automatically raises on receipt of input focus is a real pain to my
- style of working, which is to have many overlapped windows some of
- which have only the lowest few lines visible, but need input focus
- occasionaly to do a quick action. I suppose that the auto-raise is a
- hangover from the glass-tty/MSdos era of one-job-at-a-time.
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- Mike Causer
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