RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Wednesday 06 January 2010 10:07:58 am Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
> > I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
> > steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
> > window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take
> > keyboard focus away from that window.
> >
> > Clearly I'm missing something, otherwise we would have this, hence the
> > posting to the list :)
> 
> PGA.
> 
> Here's the challenge.  To reply to this mail, I hit control-shift-r in
> one evo window, and evo opened a new window for me to compose into.  Get
> it?  I typed into one window, and then started typing into another, and
> that's exactly what was desired.  If the window manager suppressed focus
> changes on the basis of "you were just typing into some other window,
> this must be a focus steal", then the new compose window would have
> mapped unfocused, and I'd have to have alt-tabbed to get to it.
> 
> So if you can come up with an algorithm that can reliably classify focus
> change requests as "stealing" or not, then great.
> 
> - ajax
> 
really the only time i have a big issue with it is when logging in for the 
first time.  and the session is restored.  kde is actually starting to get 
pretty good about managing things correctly.  you get a popup that an app 
wants focus to unlock kwallet  I really hate when im unlocking gnome keyring 
and something else steals focus.  after your logged in things would only take 
focus if you started the app by some action of your own.

Dennis
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