Re: Please strip out the patch that brings up applications behind gnome-terminal

[John Summerfied <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> but at the same time... having the pop up dialogs "pop-under" terminal
> windows in a way that you can't see them at all is also a problem.

Indeed. One of the cuter problems I had on OS/2 a few times was two 
programs crashing and bringing up two system-modal dialogues.

The bad thing about that was the one with focus was not the one on tim, 
and as they were system-modal the user couldn't change focus (and 
couldn't drag one out of the way either).

Ultimately I hit on the idea of pressing the space-bar to signal "Ok."

OS X has a good way of handling it: if an application pops up a 
dialogue, its icon on the task-bar (equivalent) starts dancing, waving 
its hands and generally showing excitement. (Well, I do exagerate a 
little, but it's hard to miss but doesn't actually get in the way).


KDE apps have been starting behind for some time, and after a while I 
decided it was deliberate and good. As I started trying to respond to 
this, I had Mozilla get in the front twice, once when it started and 
once when the site tried to set a cookie. It's annoying.




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John

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