Re: [Notion-devel] Focus inconsistencies

[Philipp H. <ph...@ph...>]

Hi,

> I keep seeing incorrect behaviors in the focusing behavior of notion, and it
> finally bothered me enough to look into it. I have
> 
> warp       = false
> mousefocus = sloppy
> 
> I used (not)ion for years with warp = true, and the focusing was much more
> correct with that setting, for what it's worth. In the rest of this message I'm
> assuming that the right focusing behavior with those settings is
> 
>  The window beneath the mouse pointer should have focus, unless the pointer is
>  currently grabbed by a different window.
> 
> If this underlying premise isn't right, maybe the following doesn't apply.

it's not correct I'm afraid: You can always switch the focus away from the
pointer using the keyboard. The pointer only influences the focus when it is 
moved. 

In particular I consider the two "failure modes" that you describe to be 
essential features. Especially the second one: when I switch my browser into 
fullscreen mode, maybe do something with the mouse and then switch back, I 
absolutely want the focus to remain on my browser, no matter where I've moved 
the pointer. Anything else would drive me insane within seconds.

> Questions:
> 
> Why kpress_wait() in the sample config file? Would kpress() suffice?  Why
> kpress_wait() for anything? I couldn't find any description anywhere about what
> kpress_wait() does and why one may want to use it.

The role of kpress_wait is explained in
http://notion.sourceforge.net/notionconf/node4.html#SECTION00433000000000000000

Whether one wants to use it for toggling fullscreen may be debatable, but it's 
at least not completely unreasonable.

Cheers,
Philipp