Martin Ebourne wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:38 +0000, Peter Corlett wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:11:13PM +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: >> [...] >>> As to the GUI user experience though, I've yet to find any other system >>> that even comes close to the productivity and ease of use of RISC OS, >>> which is sad indeed some 15 years later. That's a topic for almost daily >>> hate ever since. >> Have you ever actually *used* an OSX-era Mac? All of the usual useful RISC >> OS features appear to be present and correct. > > Yes I did. And found it reasonably hateful. Maybe with more practice I'd > find it less hateful, but the whole menu bar at the top crap just > doesn't work for me, and not for focus follow mouse either, which at > least for me is completely essential. > > (Yes I know RISC OS didn't do focus follows mouse by default but it was > easily added and worked well. Heck even windows can do it badly.)
You may be interested in one man's attempt to hack auto-focus into OS X. It has excruciating detail. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/settling-osx-focus-follows-mouse-debate.html -- There will be snacks.
