[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 54127] Re: Certain windows steal focus

[Raptor Ramjet]

In reply to Richard Laager.

> The terminology that's become popular here is just awful.

That's because the behaviour of the GUI is now awful.  It's
fundamentally irritating to have your work interrupted by another
process that decides to "pop up".  It's become worse recently (Gutsy)
and the Ubuntu "desktop experience" is now starting to mimic a Windows
95 machine where focus would be give to any application that wished to
"pop up".

When the user has decided to work on an application that application
should remain "focused" until the user decides otherwise.  There should
be no way whatsoever that another process can interrupt the user and
demand attention.  No reason whatsoever.  No ifs no buts.  None.  Nada.
This behaviour should be enforced at the GUI toolkit level to make it
impossible to override (obviously being a computer you can always
override anything but you get my drift...).

*Your* applications needs are never more important than *my* work/play.

This is a fundamental UI bug which significantly impacts the Ubuntu
desktop and should be addressed at a distribution level.  Raising bugs
against individual packages is inefficient - or do people expect us to
raise a bug against every single application that ever steals focus ?

Savvas Radević  is correct as Gnome itself should stop any application
stealing focus.

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Certain windows steal focus
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/54127
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