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Click-Through: no consistent behaviour

Submitted by mojo2012 on May 12, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

If you click on a file in an inactive Finder window then the file gets selected. A click on a toolbar icon doesn't do anything. iCal reacts the same way. But Safari and Mail have no click-through. If Mail is inactive, you can't select a different mail in the mailbox with just one click. But you can drag and drop a not already selected mail while inactive - and this does not even make Mail the active window!

So you see, there are plenty of combinations.

Either completly deactivate click through for all apps or make it the default for all apps.

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Discussion (2 comments)

ebaur wrote on May 12, 2009, 4:03pm

Although Apple can address this for their own applications, it's worth noting that this is entirely up to the individual developer of any 3rd party apps and can't effectively be enforced by the OS (at least, give the way the APIs are set up now).

mojo2012 wrote on May 12, 2009, 4:53pm

yes, that's true. But at least for Apple's apps this should be consistent.

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