[geeks] Smart phone data usage

[Phil Stracchino]

On 07/07/11 12:53, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>>> If they'd ever fix their focus bugs, I'd be pretty happy with Apple's X11
>>> distribution.
>>
>> I'm given to understand that some pretty smart people have looked at
>> this problem and concluded that, as a result of design decisions Apple
>> made in their UI layer, the focus problems in X on OSX *cannot* be fixed
>> without re-implementing the whole Apple UI layer.
> 
> That doesn't make intuitive sense to me.  When running in rootless mode,
> the X11 window objects presumably have some sort of peer object in the OS
> X window system; making them work in some other way would be a whole lot
> of work.  Why would they work in a matter different from other
> multi-window programs on the system?

I freely confess to not understanding all of the technical issues
involved.  My best understanding is that the specific issue I'm
remembering reading about has to do with implementing
focus-follows-mouse, and that as a result of how ... um ... *looks up
handy definitions list)* probably either Cocoa or Quartz (I think)
handles accelerators, keyboard accelerators CANNOT be made to work
correctly with focus-follows-mouse, EVER, without deep changes to the
architecture of [Quartz or Cocoa or whichever part it is].


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