Compare log entries when clicking on an item in the Finder, once when it’s selected but not brought into focus, and again when it’s correctly brought into focus. This points to a cause as shown here,
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In previous macOS, clicking on components in a window selects those and makes them the centre of attention, or focus. This has broken in macOS 27, as shown in the Finder and an app.
An American fan of Vermeer who trained under Gérôme in Paris thought he’d discovered Vermeer’s optical secrets, and revived his defocussed style.
Photographic lenses introduced depth of field effects, something not normally seen in normal human vision. A few paintings followed photographs.
The paintings of Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) were quickly forgotten after his death, and his art fell into obscurity. […]
Why it takes two clicks or taps to dismiss a dialog which is not the front window in OS X, and why that is correct.
Few landscape painters since have not been deeply influenced by his pioneering paintings. He also anticipated photographic effects on focus.
