On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:12 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > > On 01/06/2010 03:21 PM, Till Maas wrote: > > > >> How about making the gnome-panel give away its focus to the newly > >> created window? Within the gnome-panel, it should be pretty obvious > >> which actions should give away the focus and which should not. I do not > >> know, how easy to implement it is, though. > > > > That's pretty difficult for a launcher - how does the panel know that > > the launcher is going to create a window vs which is not? And how does > > it know what window it is? If you click on the firefox launcher, it > > runs a shell script. That script (may) eventually run an X > > application, but it in itself isn't one. What's the launcher telling > > the wm in that case under your proposed model? > > It could tell the WM, if a new window opens within the next second, > focus it. I guess this should work in many cases. But in a better world, > the launcher could maybe tell the WM if this process or a child of it > creates a new window, then give the focus to it. > Btw. I do not like it in general if a newly started application does not > immediately open a new window and is ready to be used, but instead takes > several seconds to startup and then take away focus if I am already > doing something else then to wait for it. This is also why I propose a > timeout for the focus giveaway. We already have ways of distinguishing these cases, and don't need to invent new mechanisms. - Owen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
