Pointer grabs causing accessibility issues! Why not deprecate them?

[Joel Feiner]

I had wondered this myself.  In Windows, if you have a popup/dropdown 
menu open, when you mouseover other elements on the screen, they still 
highlight, even if they don't belong to the current application.  With 
X, only the current application will still highlight.  Also, if you 
click on something outside the dropdown menu, it is immediately 
activated and the menu is closed.  On X, you have to click twice: once 
to close the menu and again to activate whatever widget your mouse is 
now over.

The question is: what does Windows do here different from X?  Somehow 
the application in question is notified that there is a click outside 
the menu (thus closing it), but other apps still receive events just 
fine.  Why can't X do something like this?

- Joel

Solerman Kaplon wrote:
> Xavier Bestel escreveu:
>> Just as a data point: AFAIK under Windows, the toolkits just care for
>> the clicks in their own window to cancel a popup menu, not on the whole
>> desktop. So a buggy application can't grab the UI.
>>   
> On windows they use SetCapture from user32.dll to do just that, 
> specially on drag n' drop stuff, but it only send events when the mouse 
> button is down (according to the docs).
> 
> Solerman
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