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<blockquote data-quote="Rezun" data-source="post: 1250255" data-attributes="member: 203183">@J.FoFirst of all: You're absolutely right about the scrolling. That's one thing I really love about the Mac. Especially in combination with the great track pad.I get the point about your example. This does make sense. But because I'm used to that behavior it's just natural for me to switch to background windows with the alt+tab combo. I dont't think about the position of a window. if its visible: i use it. if not: i use alt+tab to bring it to the front. I wouldn't perform a click on a window to just bring it to the front (except the title bar is visible and i found that window right away). On my Mac I couldn't live without WindowFlow wich tabs through windows rather than applications.The thing is: i hate to be forced to care about the focus of applications. It's hard to imagine that there is no option or tool to change this behavior because there is Klicko wich easily does the opposite. I'm a developer myself but i know litte to nothing about the Aqua API. I cannot believe that it's so hard to intercept a mouse click, get the underlying window, check if it's not focused and bring it in focus and then forward the click event.So my point in this post was to ask if anyone knows such a tool. I guess it does not make sense arguing about habits and preferences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rezun, post: 1250255, member: 203183"] @J.Fo First of all: You're absolutely right about the scrolling. That's one thing I really love about the Mac. Especially in combination with the great track pad. I get the point about your example. This does make sense. But because I'm used to that behavior it's just natural for me to switch to background windows with the alt+tab combo. I dont't think about the position of a window. if its visible: i use it. if not: i use alt+tab to bring it to the front. I wouldn't perform a click on a window to just bring it to the front (except the title bar is visible and i found that window right away). On my Mac I couldn't live without WindowFlow wich tabs through windows rather than applications. The thing is: i hate to be forced to care about the focus of applications. It's hard to imagine that there is no option or tool to change this behavior because there is Klicko wich easily does the opposite. I'm a developer myself but i know litte to nothing about the Aqua API. I cannot believe that it's so hard to intercept a mouse click, get the underlying window, check if it's not focused and bring it in focus and then forward the click event. So my point in this post was to ask if anyone knows such a tool. I guess it does not make sense arguing about habits and preferences. [/QUOTE]

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