Pointer grabs causing accessibility issues! Why not deprecate them?

[Peter Hutterer]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:35:45AM -0400, Joel Feiner wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Hi,
> There's nothing stopping X from doing this; it's just that it doesn't,
> and doing so would be a pretty serious protocol/ABI/API break.  

you could do it now, but you'd have to request synchronised grabs for 
popup menu, a full roundtrip for each event. This is not feasable.

Cheers,
   Peter