Re: How to configure window focus behaviour?

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 14Jan2008 17:28, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com> wrote:
> I doubt if most people run things that pop modal dialogs when they aren't 
> expecting them.

Feh! Firefox, which I understand is popular, offends this way all the
time if you open a lot of tabs at once.

> When you are expecting them it is equally annoying for 
> something to pop a dialog box where nothing else is going to happen until 
> you've typed in it and leave your focus somewhere else.

Firefox offends this way, too, if the dialogue box is on another
desktop, or obscured.

Modal dialogues suck.
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