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Re:Ask HN: Smoothness and performance of Qt based systems vs... by pavlov on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:57AM (#28800053)
There are a few places where it's obvious VS Code isn't a native Mac app. For example drag & drop between apps doesn't work as it should.

(When initiating a drag, VS Code steals active app focus and brings its windows to front. It should stay in the background so that you can drag content into another app. This is a behaviour that views in Cocoa applications just inherit automatically.)

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Re:Ask HN: Smoothness and performance of Qt based systems vs... by formerly_proven on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:00AM (#28800075)
> (When initiating a drag, VS Code steals active app focus and brings its windows to front. It should stay in the background so that you can drag content into another app. This is a behaviour that views in Cocoa applications just inherit automatically.)

This is a good design. It's very dumb that on other OSes initiating dragging steals focus and often hides where you want to drop.

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