Originally Posted by Wheezer
I was hoping for NeXTstep with some concessions to pre-OS X users, but the elegance just isn't there. (Point-to-focus is impossible?) I daily use Windows, OpenLook under Solaris, and OS X. That the Sun interface is the least aggravating is a bummer.
it is not that it is impossible (there are some utilities that can add it), but that it is fundamentally incompatible with the single menubar at the top of the screen. if you had focus-follows-mouse, the menubar would need to change depending on which application owned the window to which you pointed.
it gets even more interesting when you are using an application and move the mouse to the menubar to select something, and in doing so, move it across several other application windows. then what happens?