RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 17:32 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 01/06/2010 05:00 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Er, why would you want Firefox to be holding focus when it pops up?  I can't
> think of any reason.

To pick an example from my daily life: Someone pastes a bugzilla URL at
me on IRC, and I need to go scroll through it to see what they're
talking about.

- ajax
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