Re: [Usability] A (rather long) list of GNOME usability issues

[Owen Williams <ywwg usa net>]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 13:30 +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:

> Another thing I have been pondering about lately is the "passthru" click
> to raise windows - some wm's used to have this as an option years ago -
> and I think Mac OS X does this too. What I mean is that if you click to
> raise a window, that click does not do anything in the program itself.

This is a horrible feature in my opinion.  I'm the IT department at an
all-mac office, and I watch carefully when people use their computers.
I've noticed that people will click on a button in a window, and then
get momentarily confused when nothing happens.  This is because the
window is being "raised" even if it is on a different monitor than the
current raised window and has no other windows anywhere near it.  This
behavior trains users to double-click everything, because sometimes the
first click doesn't "catch."

Owen Williams