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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Selecting the active application
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Date: 28 Oct 90 00:15:04 GMT
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The reason according to some NeXT people why there is no way to switch from
click-to-focus to move-to-focus is a pretty simple one:
NeXTStep does window management, X does not. Thus, NeXTStep hides all panels
from the screen when an application is not active. Imagine now moving your
mouse on the screen. Each application window you hit would make panels pop up
and go away just for the fraction of seconds. 
So I guess they are right when they think that would be a little bit too flashy.

-- Ronald
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