Re: RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Adam Jackson (ajax@xxxxxxxxxx):
> > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> And now make that work for the case where firefox decides to take 10
> secs to start up, so you start in another window, then firefox jumps
> up and grabs focus.  Thanks.
>
> There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus.  Makes
> for an easy algorithm.  (hitting r in mutt is not a problem :)

There is no case where _you_ want this, sure.

I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation of the window currently in focus.



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