Open-link misbehavior

[Ian Burrell]

On 3/26/06, Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com> wrote:
>
> I know this, however this does not work correctly in a multi-desktop
> setup without some cooperation between Firefox and Metacity. This
> is clearly (at least at this point) a distro issue, simply because
> the Mozilla people can't do anything about it given the large variation
> out there in the field (tens of WMs, etc).
>
> In fact, when a link is opened in a new tab on same desktop, the app
> button in the taskbar flashes. This is not a Firefox behavior, it is
> the desktop. There's nothing Firefox-ish about it. When it opens in a
> _different_ desktop however, you get nothing! No indication, sign, etc.
> You are left to hunt through the various desktops like an idiot.
>

The window manager and window list applet definitely have the ability
to flash the icons when the app tells them to (gaim does this).  The
other day, I saw an icon in the taskbar show up for an app on another
desktop. When I clicked on the taskbar, it switched to the other
desktop and selected the window asking for attention. I think this is
new behavior since I hadn't noticed the cross-desktop behavior before.

Since the desktop support the behavior, then the place this needs to
be changed is in Firefox.  Firefox would need to demand attention
(flash the taskbar) when a new tab is opened from an external link.  I
did a quick search of bugzilla.mozilla.org and didn't find anything.

 - Ian