OS X: Login window and the mighty focus thingie
May 1, 2008 @ 11:51
My personal computer is a MacBook Pro, e.g. a portable computer. A portable computer is often put into sleep mode by closing the lid.
Since I tend to bring my computer with me wherever I go, I have OS X setup so that it requires you to login once the computer wakes up from sleep or from the screensaver. This is a good thing™, but it has a very annoying quirk that I’ve been tolerating way too long.
When standing at the login in screen, with the text field for the password in focus, another application might ask for modal focus. In this case, the login window sometimes simply gives away its first responder status and becomes inactive, meaning that whatever I type no longer goes into the password text field, but somewhere else (to be honest, I really don’t know where).
Why Apple, why? This clearly isn’t very user friendly? At the login window, it only makes sense if the login window itself has focus. I’ve filed yet another bug at Cupertino (rdar://5903123), so let’s hope the engineers fix this for 10.5.3+.
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