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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2009-02-10 08:48 pm
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Is there a generally accepted name for the Mac's completely bizarre mouse focus policy? If you don't know: click to focus for the left mouse button but point to focus for the others.
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[personal profile] fanf 2009-02-11 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
I think this is a combination of two principles: left click to focus, plus one action per click. So left-click on an unfocussed window raises it instead of performing the usual actions. Other buttons don't cause windows to be raised so their usual actions are not suppressed in unfocussed windows.

I guess it's possible for apps to break this logic and cause inconsistent behaviour.

[identity profile] gareth-rees.livejournal.com 2009-02-11 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
Other buttons don't cause windows to be raised

... except in the Finder.
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[personal profile] fanf 2009-02-11 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder if the rewritten Finder in 10.6 will fix this.