Re: [e-users] unable to disable mouse warping bug

[Tim B. <tim...@gm...>]

Hi Carsten,

>>It doesn't seem to me as if the focus policy should have any effect on
>>mouse warping, but then again I'm not sure what was intended, so that's
>>why I've not sent a patch.
> 
> yes it does. pointer and sloppy change focus when the mouse enters or leaves a window. if the mouse is not OVER the window u want to focus at the end of an alt-tab session - the focus will not end up there. it will end up over whatever the mouse is over at the time the winlist pops down, and not the window u wanted it on. that's why the mouse gets sent there.

Well I get the logic behind why it happens, although I see a potential
problem with this.  First of all there are many other WMs out there that
have a sloppy or lazy focusing mode yet none (that I'm aware of) always
warp the mouse at the end of a keyboard window switch (including e16!).
 This is probably going to cause some confusion for people.

The other thing is what about people who want sloppy focusing, but don't
want mouse warping?  (Like me).  It would seem in the spirit of
enlightenment (feature packed) to provide such an ability, especially
for those of us who are long time e16 users and are quite fond of the
way it works.

Maybe a simple option to explicitly disable mouse warping in all cases
could be provided?  Or a couple of extra modes (sloppy + no warp, etc).
I'm in the camp that doesn't touch the mouse very much, and when I put
the cursor somewhere I want it to stay there.  But, when I am using the
mouse I prefer sloppy focusing.

Just my two cents.

Tim.