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

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:46 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
[...]
> The fact that the user needs to manually focus a window is _a
> good thing_, because it's better for the keystrokes that the user
> might be typing at the time the modal dialog appears out of nowhere to
> be ignored than to have them be given as input to the out-of-the-blue
> dialog and possibly cause an erroneous action.

+1

I'm very much in support of this.

I've often wished for a little area of screen where new windows would
hover impatiently, shivering, waiting for me to allow them onto the
main screen.

Many information-bearing pop-up distractions could more usefully be
replaced by a short message in a scrollable status area at the bottom
of the window, for that matter.

Liam

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