Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Roots II (the window saga continues) Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 89 17:55:38 GMT References: <8902171326.AA00249@decwrl.dec.com>, <11640012@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: <11640012@hpfcdc.HP.COM> jafo@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Sean Reifschneider) writes: > > Suggestion/Proposal: When a Window is closed, the Window that is > >underneath the mouse pointer, wherever that is, gets activated. > > If you use DMouse/QMouse... that does happen. I tend to prefer that the next > window I want to use gets activated. > > Sean And the user who wants such behavior should run DMouse/QMouse instead of asking that Intuition be changed. There are times when having the last active window get reactivated is what you want to have happen, and there are times when you want the window under the pointer active. Changing Intuition would make window-stacking next to impossible and ruin user continuity with previous system releases. -- Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu / BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ "You just don't get off a spaceship and run." --Avon