Subject: Re: commit -- focus change
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 07:32:35 CST
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> Remove boneheaded behavior of making the selection disappear when
> focusing out the window. This is especially bad when using mouseover
> focus. This behavior made it difficult to be working in another window
> and selecting things on the unfocused window as a "hiliter" for
> yourself, since selections would disappear as soon as you unfocused
> the window.
>
> Perhaps it _would_ be a good idea to tint selection color somewhat
> if the window is unfocused, making it an obvious indication that the
> window is not focused (but isn't that what the window manager is for?)
> but allowing the selection to remain visible.
I don't think that we should do anything with the selection
colour. I agree 100% with you that this is a function of
the window manager to show you which of multiple windows
has input focus. This feature is more or less present on
all systems.
Thomas
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Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
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