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- From: "Kevin O'Donovan" <abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Gem List (fwd)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 10:59:01 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <9407210022.AA04451@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> from "Warwick Allison" at Jul 21, 94 10:22:37 am
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- > However, people are only just starting to multitask on the Atari. Now
- > is the time to get things `right'. There is still hope. Imagine a
- > system where an application would co-operate with other applications to
- > pass keyboard events to the window under the mouse, or some other
- > focussing scheme (GEM treats focus==top, in the hope that it is far
- > more efficient to update a top window, but in reality, this is not the
- > case
- This sort of thing is really the domain of the window manager, and should
- be selectable by the user. On workstations I much prefer to have mouse
- focus (window under mouse gets key events, topped or otherwise), but on the
- Falcon I'm kind of used to having to top a window.
-
- Kev
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