Comment 10 for bug 29560

frederik.nnaji: I covered this in the article:

"What isn’t a solution

    * Always raising the lower window only on release, not on click (suggested by many people). This would solve the problem at the cost of weirding everyone out, not just breaking the expectations of existing Metacity users and users from other window managers in the world of free software, but also the expectations of Mac and Windows people."

There are *no* other systems I'm aware of which behave this way. The Mac doesn't, Windows doesn't, Metacity doesn't, and nor does any other WM. It would solve this one problem at the cost of introducing a much larger problem.