update-manager behaviour [was: Auto-launching of applications]

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:57:19PM +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Mario Limonciello wrote on 20/02/09 17:09:
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> > I can think of cases when this behavior can be really disruptive too.
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> > Think about how annoying it would be if update manager was launching
> > while:
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> >     * Watching a movie
> >     * Playing a full screen game
> >     * Any time spent in MythTV or boxee
> >...
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> Whenever Update Manager opens automatically, it should open in the
> background. Please report bugs about specific cases where this doesn't
> happen, including what window manager you're using.

We start update-manager with "focus_on_map" set to false. I ran some
tests to see if it behaves as expected:

metacity:
- totem, gnome-terminal,firefox fullscreen: 
  + opens behind the fullscreen app
- totem, gnome-terminal,firefox maximized: 
  + opens behind the maximized app

compiz:
- totem, gnome-terminal,firefox fullscreen: 
  + opens behind the fullscreen app (without priority hint in windowlist)
- totem, gnome-terminal,firefox maximized: 
  + opens *not* behind the maximized app

So it looks like we need to make compiz behaviour better for maximized
apps to behave more like metacity.

Cheers,
 Michael