> In the meantime, developers are left hanging with putting out apps that > have just way too many windows. I've used Gimp on my OSX box and it > totally sucks having to first clicking the window to get focus before > being able to click the item. If the app ran on a MDI framework, this > would not be necessary.
This has nothing to do with MDI, or Gimp, or even click-to-focus. This is about click-through. On the Mac, "click-through" determines whether you can click on an item in an un-focused window directly, or if you have to click on the window to focus it first. Typically, things like "Delete" buttons don't get click-through, so you can switch to another application easily without fear of doing something dangerous. X -- or specifically, toolkits for X, like Gtk+ -- have no concept of click-through. Window managers simply make everything click-through (or nothing, depending on your window manager, apparently). I haven't used Gimp on the Mac, but I suspect they simply disabled click-through for all X windows. I use Gimp on my Linux box with Metacity (click-to-focus) and it works just fine. No need to click twice here. An interesting project would be to add support for (real, developer-gets-to-choose-per-widget) click-through to Gtk+. - Ken _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
