On Sunday 26 March 2006 16:52, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > yes launching mplayer in fullscreen mode from a terminal... its > inconceivable why anyone would want mplayer to actuall go fullscreen. > It makes so much more sense for the mplayer window, which was > deliberately requested to be in fullscreen with a cmdline argument to > load behind my terminal and the gnome-panels as well. It's so simple > and intuitive to have to click on that fullscreen requested mplayer > window, not once.. but twice (to bring it above the terminal and the > gnome-panel objects) to have it in the foreground like it would when > called from pretty much anything other than gnome-terminal. For the record, I also totally agree with the point you are making. > What I really really love.. is when the entire window for the > application you just lauched is covered by the lauching terminal. > Even better when that completely obscured window is a dialog with a > timer action. I wonder, are any of those new fangled keyboard focus > stealing password dialogs affected by the pop-under behavior? Wouldn't > that be funny... a password dialog that you can't see which forcibly > steals keyboard focus for security reasons.. sitting under your > terminal window which forcibly causes new windows to pop-under for > usability reasons.. Does that count as ironic.. or is it just tragic? This is why I think the current solution is not "the" "right" one. Bill"just because I disagree with the current solution doesn't actually mean I really mean oh we should have the horrible nonoptimal solution and that people should keep replying to me defending the old behaviour"Crawford. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
