<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Adam Jackson <<a href="mailto:ajax@redhat.com">ajax@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:23 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Adam Jackson (<a href="mailto:ajax@redhat.com">ajax@redhat.com</a>): > > 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. </blockquote><div> I'd say... only take focus if its a child/creation of the window currently in focus. </div></div>