Eines der Dinge, die man anderen nur sehr schwer erklären kann, sind die Vorzüge der Autofocus-Funktion einer grafischen Benutzeroberfläche, so wie sie bei X Standard ist. Stevey hat es, weil er sich über dieses fehlende Feature bei Mac OSX ärgert, ganz gut hinbekommen (unbedingt den gesamten Beitrag lesen):

Every time they bring it up on Mac forums, the Mac users with non-Unix backgrounds ask "what's that?" And then a bunch of wrong answers start flying around, with a few right answers interspersed but drowned out in the noise.

So let me tell you what it is first, in case you're not from a Unix background. Focus-follows-mouse means that when you move the mouse cursor, the window under the cursor gets the keyboard focus. But saying that confuses Mac people who all assume that "focused" is synonymous with "foreground", because that's the way it works on the Mac.

The confusion stems from the fact that focus-follows-mouse comes in not one, but two, yes that's right, two yummy flavors.

[...]

[via Isotopp]