RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

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Am 2010-01-06 18:17, schrieb Matthew Booth:
> On 06/01/10 17:00, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:36 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> On 1/6/10 11:07 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> There is one situation where the absolute of $SUBJECT is required:
> password windows. I end up typing passwords wholly or partially into
> other windows on a reasonably regular basis because of this.
>
> Matt

This is my primary motivation for bringing this up again.

I either start typing a password into a dialog then something steals 
focus and the password is in cleartext, or or the other way round: I 
start typing something in one apps, a password dialog pops up, and I end 
up typing non-passwords there. Ugh. Dangerous and not good.

This must be solvable, not just for password entry.