Tom Lane wrote:
Upstream change or not, you're pissing off users to save 59k out
of
however many gigabytes a minimal GNOME install is. I shouldn't really
presume to speak for others, but for me focus-follows-mouse is wired
into the fingertips --- it's not a negotiable UI change, it WILL cause
me to leave a distro. Or stop using GNOME, if they are stupid enough
to try to kill it altogether.
You can switch to KDE, it supports "focus follows mouse" and exposes the
setting by default (under "window properties" in System Settings).
Kevin Kofler