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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: subliminal feedback
Keywords: feedback windowing interfaces
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Date: 23 Nov 88 04:59:16 GMT
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In article <4294@homxc.UUCP> marty@homxc.UUCP (M.B.BRILLIANT) writes:
>In the second place:  Experienced users could work faster if they did
>not have to ``formally select'' the window to be worked in.  A smart
>system would know which window the user is looking at

That isn't always the window I want selected, though.  If my mailbox window
flashes to indicate new mail, I'll look at it, but most of the time I'll
stay with the window I'm working in.  In a similar vein, when using a Sun
I have click-to-type set, because when using non-mouse-oriented things I
like to shove the mouse out of the way, and would be very frustrated if
that deselected the window.