Hi all,
This is an editorial comment for the Fedora desktop developers.
I've just done my first Fedora install since 8 or 9 with Fedora 12. Why is it now so difficult to set up "focus follows mouse" under Gnome? Click to focus is just annoying. It sucked for me when "click to focus" became the default, but I could live with finding the desktop preference and setting it. But it makes this user really annoyed (Grrr!) that I have to ask about it on some mailing list, install an obscure package, and change the setting. I get the feeling the the desktop developers think they know better than the user.
Look, I *can* work either way -- I live with "focus follows mouse" on Windows. But this is one of the key reasons that Linux is my primary desktop -- it sucks less and "focus follows mouse" is one of the big reasons for that, especially when using multiple desktops. Point and type -- not point, click, type. (Yes, I know it can be changed on Windows.) It is especially annoying when not only does focus require a click, but that click also raises the window. I want focus and raising to be separate operations. There are plenty of operations that work much better with the focus window not being on top of the window stack. Forcing the window I want on top is a PITA that focus follows mouse avoids.
I don't care to impose my preferences on anyone. I am not asking for "focus follows mouse" to be the default (though that would be my preference). But please make it easy to set my preferences. Please bring a little Christmas cheer to the Gnome world and make "Window Preferences" part of the default Gnome desktop installation again!
Thanks,
Rob
On 12/20/2009 11:09 PM, Rob Riggs wrote:
Hi all,
This is an editorial comment for the Fedora desktop developers.
I've just done my first Fedora install since 8 or 9 with Fedora 12. Why is it now so difficult to set up "focus follows mouse" under Gnome? Click to focus is just annoying. It sucked for me when "click to focus" became the default, but I could live with finding the desktop preference and setting it. But it makes this user really annoyed (Grrr!) that I have to ask about it on some mailing list, install an obscure package, and change the setting. I get the feeling the the desktop developers think they know better than the user.
Look, I *can* work either way -- I live with "focus follows mouse" on Windows. But this is one of the key reasons that Linux is my primary desktop -- it sucks less and "focus follows mouse" is one of the big reasons for that, especially when using multiple desktops. Point and type -- not point, click, type. (Yes, I know it can be changed on Windows.) It is especially annoying when not only does focus require a click, but that click also raises the window. I want focus and raising to be separate operations. There are plenty of operations that work much better with the focus window not being on top of the window stack. Forcing the window I want on top is a PITA that focus follows mouse avoids.
I don't care to impose my preferences on anyone. I am not asking for "focus follows mouse" to be the default (though that would be my preference). But please make it easy to set my preferences. Please bring a little Christmas cheer to the Gnome world and make "Window Preferences" part of the default Gnome desktop installation again!
On F11 it's no harder then System --> Preference --> Windows <click> Select windows when mouse is over them..
If it's not in the menu in F12 on you system you can either go System --> Administration and type control-center-extra hash it and apply or just open up a terminal and type gnome-window-properties and it should ask you to install it if it's not installed on your system.
JBG
On 12/21/2009 08:39 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 12/20/2009 11:09 PM, Rob Riggs wrote:
Hi all,
This is an editorial comment for the Fedora desktop developers.
I've just done my first Fedora install since 8 or 9 with Fedora 12. Why is it now so difficult to set up "focus follows mouse" under Gnome? Click to focus is just annoying. It sucked for me when "click to focus" became the default, but I could live with finding the desktop preference and setting it. But it makes this user really annoyed (Grrr!) that I have to ask about it on some mailing list, install an obscure package, and change the setting. I get the feeling the the desktop developers think they know better than the user.
Look, I *can* work either way -- I live with "focus follows mouse" on Windows. But this is one of the key reasons that Linux is my primary desktop -- it sucks less and "focus follows mouse" is one of the big reasons for that, especially when using multiple desktops. Point and type -- not point, click, type. (Yes, I know it can be changed on Windows.) It is especially annoying when not only does focus require a click, but that click also raises the window. I want focus and raising to be separate operations. There are plenty of operations that work much better with the focus window not being on top of the window stack. Forcing the window I want on top is a PITA that focus follows mouse avoids.
I don't care to impose my preferences on anyone. I am not asking for "focus follows mouse" to be the default (though that would be my preference). But please make it easy to set my preferences. Please bring a little Christmas cheer to the Gnome world and make "Window Preferences" part of the default Gnome desktop installation again!
On F11 it's no harder then System --> Preference --> Windows <click> Select windows when mouse is over them..
If it's not in the menu in F12 on you system you can either go System --> Administration and type control-center-extra hash it and apply or just open up a terminal and type gnome-window-properties and it should ask you to install it if it's not installed on your system.
Correction forgot to add Add/Remove Software there.. as in
If it's not in the menu in F12 on you system you can either go System --> Administration --> Add/Remove Software type control-center-extra in the search field and hash it..
JBG
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