Re: [Inkscape-devel] window focus confusions

I, too, use focus-follows-mouse, and have had this happen...

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:38:54PM +0000, bulia byak wrote:

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1. make it visually obvious (perhaps the selection could change colour)

which window my dialog actions will affect, or

Yes, that might be useful. I thought about that too. Please add a RFE.

Agreed, this is a nice idea: having a noticable change in the selected view.

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2. to lock the "active" window (maybe the last one actually edited?) to

consequent dialog actions.

No, I don't think it's going to be intuitive.

Also, I think it would cause more headache than help for other focus-follows-mouse people. I expect to be able to move from window to window and use the same dialog to work on them. :)