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

["Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladimir acm org>]

The way to solve this dilemma is to provide a user option to change the
behavior. Everyone will then be happy, or at least happier, and I
needn't impose my preferences on others.

--- Vladimir

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:23 -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> On 1/31/06, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com> wrote:
> > On 1/31/06, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM comcast net> wrote:
> > > The problem I have with that is that the popup dialogs are the
> > > worst offenders.  I'll be typing into a word processor, and a
> > > long running background process pops up a dialog saying, "An
> > > unexpected error has occurred.  Delete the database?" just as
> > > I'm about to type <TAB> <ENTER>.  Bye-bye database!
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Here's an example, the nm-applet has a keyring manager dialog that
> opens when it starts up.  This dialog should be rendered above other
> windows, since it requires user input for important system
> functionality to be set up (wireless networking).  Since this change,
> I see a flash when nm-applet starts, then I have to dig around to get
> to the dialog.
> 
> The most aggrevating example, though, is when I start ANY application
> from gnome-terminal (emacs, amarok, firefox, whatever).  I now have to
> click on the application window to give it focus.  I hate this!  I,
> personally, think it is brain-dead to not give focus to applications
> when they start (with the exception of dialogs which should be "system
> modal" in Windows parlance).
> 
>       Miles
> 
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Vladimir G. Ivanovic
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