Re: Window List panel - irritating behavior (clicks ignored)

On 2/6/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 14:01 +0000, Sean Dynan wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > We use CentOS 4.4 in our development shop and those of us running
> > Gnome suffer really irritating behavior from our Window List panels
> > (version 2.8.1).
> >
> > 9 times out of 10, when an application icon is clicked in the Window
> > List, the mouse click fails to bring the application to the
> > foreground. Mousing over the icon highlights the icon okay, but
> > clicking on it very rarely activates the app. If we click 'more
> > slowly' then the problem isn't exhibited. But we find it hard to
> > believe the Window List panel is missing 'fast' mouse click events.
> how fast is fast , and how slow is slow ?
> As humanely as possible, i could reproduce this 10/10 times.

Slow == maybe half a second.
Fast == as fast as possible. You know the kind of thing: when you're
whizzing around the UI and you're rapidly clicking on widgets. That
sort of 'fast'.

My best stab-in-the-dark guess is that there is a slight mouse motion
detected as well as the click and the UI interprets that as an attempt
to move the icon off the panel. So it is ignored.

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Sean Dynan