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[Florian Diesch <diesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


> Niklas Rosenqvist wrote on 19/05/11 10:15:
>>
>> 2011/5/19 Florian Diesch <diesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>...
>>> It's about impossible to use "focus follows mouse" and multiple
>>> windows with the global menu, which makes it unusable for me.
>> 
>> This is a great example for when the global menu isn't such a great
>> idea as everyone thought before Natty.
>>...
>
> That isn't correct. I specified how it could work with focus follows
> mouse in May 2010, months before Natty even had a name.
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#focus-follows-mouse>

That's much better than what we have now but still far from being a real
solution as it would give me the wrong menu for a window I focused by
moving the mouse to it. And the point of using "focus follows mouse" is
that I can select a window with the mouse *without* clicking on it.


   Florian
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Simple dict-like Python API for GConf:
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