On 24/01/2015 20:58, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On 24 Jan 2015 17:24:42 GMT, Huge wrote:

That's one of the reasons I loathe Windows. Click "File - Open",
Windows opens a file chooser, damn, I've forgotten where the file
is,
now I have to close the ****ing chooser to go and remind myself
where
the file is. Any system that seizes the inpput focus is broken.

None of the Linuxen I've used do that..

None of the Windowses I've used does that either.

All of the ones I've used (XP & Win7) work that way.

Even worse, it won't allow me to move the chooser window so I can't even
get it out of the way.

Well I find you can move it(*) but if you can't move it enough to
uncover the information you want to see in another window, from
another program, you can't shift that other window out from under the
file open dialogue or the parent window of the dialogue.

I think windows users are just conditioned to working around the
limitations of the windows way rather than the simple and obvious
"any window can have focus at any time".

I think you will find most windows users don't have that problem in the
first place.


(*) But it doesn't remember where you moved it to if you are forced
to close and reopen it.


Some older apps require you to hold down another key while dragging to
indicate the change is to be remembered. Its not a function of old
windows like XP.