On Sunday 26 March 2006 16:21, Jon Nettleton wrote: > I think the check for keypresses/mouse clinks between application launch > and it being drawn on screen makes a much more logical interaction with > the desktop. If you ask your secretary to get you a file, and then you > start working on something else, she doesn't just come over and drop it > right in front of you. If you ask your secretary to get you a file, and > then you sit there twiddling your fingers, she will probably hand it > right to you so you can start working on it. And if you had your hands full, and she just dropped it on your desk while you were writing something, and got ink on the nice new file, wouldn't you be surprised? > Metacity already has an algorithm that somewhat tries to implement this > with the intervening_user_event_occurred function. I don't think that > this is working quite right. I spent some initial time working on it, > but then got side tracked. I would be more than happy to pick this back > up if there is any interest in people testing this behavior and seeing > if it is natural, or too confusing. I'd love to see a *better* solution. This sounds like a promising start - kudos to you and anyone else working on a solution. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
