On 12/3/11, Peter John Hartman <peterjohnhart...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why would you move the mouse and not expect it to refocus things? Esp. > since this is how it works everywhere else? > To be fair, sloppy focus is generally surprising and annoying if you ever move your pointer. Reaching out for your mouse only to change focus and not sending any ButtonPress events is not a valid use case. If you are a keyboard-only user, focus windows using keyboard shortcuts (either using shortcuts assigned to applications/windows or by repeated Alt-(Shift)-Escaping/^jk). If you are a mouse user (on suckless?), then saving the click on the text box may be mildly convenient. But for any window not keyboard driven, you are likely to wish to click something anyway.
Thus it seems keyboard-only users that may or may not interact with windows that expect ButtonPress events could be more productive under a focus-follows-click policy (where focus is changed upon ButtonPress events, but they still allowed to reach the clicked window) or a mouse-agnostic focus policy where focus change is incited by windows or keyboard only.
