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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Sunview - X server
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Date: 24 Dec 88 22:11:29 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 75, message 8 of 11

In comp.sys.sun (<2347@kalliope.rice.edu>), Our Faithful Moderator writes:
>
>[[ Yeah.  I hate jumping cursors!  If I want my cursor "over there", I'll
>move the mouse myself, thank you.  This is, of course, a matter of
>personal taste.  

Interesting.  I used to have the same opinion about warping the pointer,
until I used a 386i for a while.  After a couple of days getting used to
it, I really came to like the way the pointer warps to the appropriate
button when a confirmation box pops up then warps back when you're done
with the transient dialog.  I had the same experience with stay-up menus;
after getting over the novelty, I decided I liked them quite a lot.  (Of
course, my SunView root menu is 8 items long by 5 layers deep...)

I still find it evil to warp the pointer into windows when you open them,
though -- for me, pointer warp only works when your attention is required
somewhere else for just a minute, then you return to what you were doing.