[Bug 373974] Re: Configuration Dialogs should not steal focus during updates

[Tomas Petricek]

This bug affects me as well on 12.04 with in 'GNOME Classic (No effects)' session. Should a new bug be created?
As was described such a behavior is very annoying and potentially harmful...

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Title:
  Configuration Dialogs should not steal focus during updates

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Invalid
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  During an update, I was writing an email. A window came up just as I pressed the spacebar.  The window disappeared before I could read it. The window was most likely asking about what to do about menu.lst since there was a kernel update.
  This can not be proper behavior.
  Either, 1) dialogs should not steal focus, or 2) dialogs should not have a default button selected so that a user pressing enter, or spacebar at the wrong time doesn't break a system.
  I suspect that #2 would be a better option, since the update is incomplete until the user makes a selection. If the user fails to notice the window for an extended time, the system might crash or be rebooted before the update is completed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: update-manager 1:0.111.9
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

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