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*Not* an Apple trick, though
Authored by: MattHaffner on Mar 02, '04 11:45:57AM

Although I applaud Apple for including this functionality, it's not their invention. XMMS, a pretty standard tool under X11/Linux/etc. has done this for a very long time.

What's even better about how it works with the way a lot of us X11 users have our window manager configured to have the focus follow the mouse is that you don't have to bring the app to the front layer to change the volume. You just hover over the app and scroll. Clicking works this way for the mini-iTunes window now, but the scrolling doesn't (yet).

I'd really like to see the Terminal preference for focus follows mouse migrate to the OS X system as a whole to enable this kind of functionality in all apps. It certainly should not be the default because it is disconcerting for a lot of new users (or just generally anyone new to the functionality). But for those that want to use it, I find it to be a huge time/space saver. Being able to even just scroll a window that's not on the top layer is really handy if your attention is primarily on a foreground window.



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