RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

[Fulko Hew]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Adam Jackson (ajax at redhat.com):
> > > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > > I'd go with "don't let a different app steal focus". Windows for the
> > > > same currently focused app are allowed to. This works pretty well
> under
> > > > Mac OS X. Might depend on some of the stuff being done by the
> > > > gnome-shell folks though, to be able to group windows together as
> > > > belonging to the same process/application to be able to do it Right
> > > > under a Linux DE...
> > >
> > > Now make that work for the (not uncommon) case of clicking a link in
> evo
> > > or control-clicking one in gnome-terminal and expecting firefox to pop
> > > forward with that page.
> >
> > And now make that work for the case where firefox decides to take 10
> > secs to start up, so you start in another window, then firefox jumps
> > up and grabs focus.  Thanks.
> >
> > There is no case where I want a new window or popup to take focus.  Makes
> > for an easy algorithm.  (hitting r in mutt is not a problem :)
>
> There is no case where _you_ want this, sure.
>

I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation of the window currently
in focus.
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