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On Sunday 11 April 2004 3:43 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> lsom@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 April 2004 1:53 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >
> >>lsom@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >>>I searched the archives and didn't see many posts on this, except people
> >>>wanting this feature- does 3.2 allow you the option of setting the active
> >>>window to be totally uninterruptible? <snip>
>
> OK. This feature has been refined in 3.2.2 but it isn't exactly new.
>
> If you click the "Menu" icon in the window's title bar and look for
> something like 'keep on top'. You might have to look under: "Advanced" to
> find it -- this has changed several times in the last few versions.
yes, 'sticky' windows have been around for awhile, but they do not maintain
focus. Focus is different than window position. You can have focus on a
window that's underneath another window, and type in it. Here's a simple
example: suppose you're typing a message in Kmail, and decide to open
Abiword. Even with 'always on top' toggled for Kmail, focus will shift to
Abiword. Kmail is on top, but your typing goes to Abiword. Same thing happens
with message popups. Quite annoying to have typing interrupted and goobered
up by some dumb lil error message from another program.
I would like to see an option that does not allow anything to take focus away
from the active window, make it a global option. It's been mentioned several
times on the lists, over the years, as a possible new KDE feature, so I was
hoping it had made it into 3.2.
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