On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:15:03PM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > The point is that it does not work in the *general case*, because > a confluence of UI and API choices means that applications *may* > crash under FFM, because of how the menu bar works. You can list > exceptions to the rule (ie. written not to crash under FFM) all > day long and it won't make any difference to the existence of > legacy apps that will crash.
I'm aware of this reason, which I agree is valid in the general case for a strict interpretation of "focus follows mouse". But what I fail to see is why one can't have focus following mouse, with the menu bar *also* "following" the mouse. Presumably, because that would be not-hateful, and hence breaking one of the fundamentals of software? Nicholas Clark
