Re:The end of the nice GTK button
by dspillett on Friday March 25, 2022 @06:56AM
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The one that irritates me these days is working out at a glance what has input focus. Window borders are so thin, and the difference between focused and not minimal, app have custom chrome so while titlebars are a good indicator sometimes often they are not, or are just two subtle, etc. MS Office apps are an offender here.
Which of those has focus? There is actually a difference (and to take the screenshot they overlapped making it obvious that way) but it is subtle. Try spotting it reliably when they are on different monitors.
At some point it'll annoy me enough that I'll write a util to scan for the current window that is top of the stack and draw a bright green border (or otherwise unmissable clue) around it⦠It'll look ugly, but I'll darn well know where what I'm about to type will go!
An example taken right now with Firefox under Windows: https://daveflix.deeohhtee.enneeetee.net/stuff/tmp/FocusNotO...
Which of those has focus? There is actually a difference (and to take the screenshot they overlapped making it obvious that way) but it is subtle. Try spotting it reliably when they are on different monitors.
At some point it'll annoy me enough that I'll write a util to scan for the current window that is top of the stack and draw a bright green border (or otherwise unmissable clue) around it⦠It'll look ugly, but I'll darn well know where what I'm about to type will go!