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- From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Click to Raise Windows vs. Point to Rais
- Message-ID: <2846@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 03:32:22 GMT
- References: <2844@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> <1992Nov19.104126.11247@medusa.prime.com>
- Organization: ISC - Bunker Ramo, Spokane, WA
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- In article <1992Nov19.104126.11247@medusa.prime.com> mike@CIS.Prime.COM writes:
- >> Also, bumping the mouse with your elbow by accident is not harmful
- >> when the mouse works the ONE TRUE WAY.
- >
- >Where _do_ you keep your mouse?
-
- On the desktop, next to my swivel chair. I can spin and hit something,
- either the mouse or one of the bazillions of tons of junk scattered on
- my desk, and it as often as not is shinbone-to-headbone all the way
- to the mouse. If focus changed, I would not like it. I want an
- _explicit_ action to change somthing like focus or layering order.
-
- Click-to-focus (and raise) works great for me.
-
- Then again, our system has a key sequence to swap the frontmost two
- windows (thus changing focus, too). 99% of the time this is all I'm
- interested in working in at any one time. I can change focus, do
- something, and put everything back the way it was without the mouse,
- even if one window's completely obscured by the other.
-
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