On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 20:41, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
Actually, all desktop designers should take a hard look at the OS/2 Workplace shell. It included a lot of nice features that I haven't seen elsewhere.
e.g.
Browser window in background has a page with an URL I want to copy& paste
into window that has focus. Anywhere else, I have to: 1-focus the browser window 2-copy the link 3-refocus the target window 4-paste
In OS/2: 1-right click the browser link 2-click copy 3-shift-INS 4-<enter>
The difference is OS/2 typically requires a whole lot less mouse movement and screen redrawing to do the same task.
Ummm OK... I just now tested your "In OS/2" example in KDE4 (using default mouse focus settings) with LibreOffice and Chromium. The application with focus was LibreOffice, and Chromium was in the background, but the contents were visible. I followed your *exact* steps you outlined for for OS/2 and.. it worked exactly the same in KDE4. I did *not* have to to the first sequence of steps to achieve the copy/paste in this example. So...
Which KDE4? Right click on a link in a background window in KDE has always focused that window for me, but I haven't reopened Chromium since my first look at it (I uninstalled it). I infrequently have occasion to paste from a web browser into LO. Web browser to me usually means SM or FF, only occasionally Konq, rarely Opera.
I am using the current release of KDE4.8.1 from the openSUSE 12.1 KDE4.8 repository - but this is somewhat irrelevant because this behavior has been the same over as many previous versions of KDE4 as I can remember... I use this functionality a lot (I got used to it in KDE3.. I can't remember if KDE2 had it, it was too long ago) and just assume it is there and works.. this was made apparent to me lately when I have had to work a fair bit with Windows 7 where this is not possible to do. I used Chromium because I happened to be working in it when I tested your example. I just tested with Firefox 11... same results... I can right click on *any* link with Firefox in the background and copy the link Firefox remains in the background... and then I past said link into LibreOffice. Just for completeness, I followed the exact same steps in Opera and Konqueror as well... same results... the browser remains in the background and I can copy the link (Konqueror, an app I never use, does seem a bit more twitchy and will come forward if your right click moves the mouse or you linger too long on the right click). I don't have SeaMonkey installed, but frankly I'd be very surprised that the results aren't exactly the same.. that browsers in KDE4 behave exactly as your "good" example from OS/2. So it would seem that this issue is a non-issue. C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org