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4 Sep 2024 19:23:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Modern Linux desktops suck  
From: clipka
Date: 17 Nov 2009 01:38:24
Message: <4b0244e0$1@news.povray.org>
clipka schrieb:

> The scroll-wheel-switches-desktops thingie Warp is so fond of I find 
> actually quite annoying, can't think of how anyone might like it - as it 
> has the scroll wheel change functionality dramatically depending on what 
> the mouse cursor is currently hovering over. It might be less irritating 
> if KDE4 would have totally given up the concept of an application being 
> "in focus", or auto-focus whatever application the cursor is currently 
> hovering over, but that's not the case: The concept of focus is still 
> there, it's just being limited to the keyboard. Which I find a dubious 
> idea, given that mice by now have grown additional keys with 
> functionality that often transcends the concept of a point-and-click 
> device, while at the same time keyboards occasionally grow pointing 
> devices, and it becomes hard to tell the "mouse keys" from the "keyboard 
> keys".

You rant and live and learn. For instance that you actually /can/ have 
that "mouse cursor = focus" policy in KDE4...


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