On 01/06/2010 05:00 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: >>> PGA. >>> >>> Here's the challenge. To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in >>> one evo window, and evo opened a new window for me to compose into. Get >>> it? I typed into one window, and then started typing into another, and >>> that's exactly what was desired. If the window manager suppressed focus >>> changes on the basis of "you were just typing into some other window, >>> this must be a focus steal", then the new compose window would have >>> mapped unfocused, and I'd have to have alt-tabbed to get to it. >>> >>> So if you can come up with an algorithm that can reliably classify focus >>> change requests as "stealing" or not, then great. >> >> I'd go with "don't let a different app steal focus". Windows for the >> same currently focused app are allowed to. This works pretty well under >> Mac OS X. Might depend on some of the stuff being done by the >> gnome-shell folks though, to be able to group windows together as >> belonging to the same process/application to be able to do it Right >> under a Linux DE... > > Now make that work for the (not uncommon) case of clicking a link in evo > or control-clicking one in gnome-terminal and expecting firefox to pop > forward with that page. Er, why would you want Firefox to be holding focus when it pops up? I can't think of any reason. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
