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From: "Kevin O'Donovan" <abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GEM apps, in general
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 10:24:02 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9407221922.E14466-0100000@grad> from "Timothy Miller" at Jul 22, 94 07:47:23 pm
Precedence: bulk
> Definately a dangerous practice. Keys should only go to the top window.
> Period. Clicking in a background window can be confusing enough.
>
Surely it should be up to the user how this sort of thing behaves. Whilst
conceptually it might appear dangerous I've never had any problems working
in an environment like that for quite a number of years.
> I HATE the was Microsoft Windows passes mouse events to background
> windows when you click to top them. I like GEM much better.
>
Yep, *you* hate - other people's mileage may vary. Personally it doesn't
bother me, I'm quite happy to have to top windows under Gem, but then I
only really multitask using mint ATM, if I start using something like
magic then that might change.
Kev
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