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

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:35 +0000, Sean Dynan wrote:
On 2/6/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray@xxxxxxxxx> 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

Probably the mouse event is not being captured , or the mouse click is
not over the application icon.

metacity might be helpful here to trace where the clicks are being
focused, afaik.


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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Ritesh Khadgaray
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