A similar thing is what happens when you touch a phone when it dims right before sleeping. Some OSes only let the touch restore brightness, while others will do that AND register a tap wherever you touched. Super annoying IMO.
I have focus follows mouse on Linux so it might be an exaggerated problem, but it’s annoying to click a text box and it not actually select the text box.
There is an option in yabai for focus follows mouse, but I had to disable yabai because it’s really awkward and perceptibly slow on macos.
I use 3 monitors for both, and frequently multi task and the extra click on Mac infuriates me.
MS - and especially Windows - has always seemed to me a company that takes smart people and makes them do really stupid things. The product culture seems incredibly broken.
It's never been great. But in the past usable versions like XP and 7 would fall out. 8 set a new baseline for idiocracy and user hostility. I see no evidence things have gotten better since.
I suppose - as per earlier comments here - if the culture is top-down design by people who don't even use the product and are trying to Make a Statement for career reasons, the future isn't encouraging.
The real question is what kind of management allows something so obviously nonsensical to happen.
Yeah, Windows has had that too for a while now. Dunno for sure how long; some five years (or eight? Ten?), I'd guess.
Edit: it seems to depend on the kind of button(?)
> var worksWhenModal: Bool
> A Boolean value that indicates whether the window is able to receive keyboard and mouse events even when some other window is being run modally.
I think there are flags for doing that for non-modal ‘other windows’, too.