RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:00 +0100, nodata wrote:
> I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever 
> steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell 
> window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take 
> keyboard focus away from that window.
> 
> Clearly I'm missing something, otherwise we would have this, hence the 
> posting to the list :)

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.

- ajax
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