Re: [Usability] Re: Error dialogs (among others?) and focus stealing prevention

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 22:50 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> 
> Short answer: Should be, but who's responsible to make it be so?
> 

We're kind of in gtk-devel territory rather than usability@ territory
here, but I guess my question is: how many things would get a USER_TIME
of 0 if we said the timestamp on a window comes from the *current* event
instead of the *most recent* event.

i.e. how often do we open a window asynchronously from the event that
causes it to open, for example if you queued an idle to open the window,
or something of that nature.

We could say that in the case where the user event isn't the current
event, the app author has to handle it manually; that seems potentially
less work and less common than manually setting 0 on all "out of the
blue" dialogs.

Just a thought. I suppose to decide scientifically we could survey a
bunch of dialog-opening code from cvs.

Havoc