[Bug 224475] Re: Changing sound volume with special keys causes Flash to exit full screen

[Michael Rooney]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
> nikolay, thanks for that analysis. I think you're right, this bug is not
> actually in Flash and it has other unpleasant effects.

I think that is half correct. While making the notifications not
unfocus the focused window would work around this specific case, it is
still a bug in Flash that unfocusing the window exists fullscreen. Use
multiple monitors and you will see that a fullscreen window will
commonly not have focus. For example, I can fullscreen any application
or watch fullscreen videos in totem/vlc/banshee/hulu desktop (which is
flash, interestingly enough) on one monitor while working on another,
and the flash plugin is the only application I know of which fails at
this use case.

So, I agree that it would be GREAT to fix the focus issue on our side
and resolve the other unpleasant effects you mention, but there is no
reason for Flash to expect focus to remain in fullscreen either (no
other application does), so it is also a bug in Flash. It seems like
the bug should be fixed on both sides, because neither should be
behaving the way it is it seems, and both will have good consequences
besides this bug :)

-- 
Pressing volume/brightness key changes window focus (e.g. makes Flash exit full screen)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224475
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mozilla
Bugs, which is subscribed to flashplugin-nonfree in ubuntu.