Re: Stop new window from grabbing focus

[Todd Chambery <chambery dev gmail com>]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 22:02 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:11:31PM -0600, Todd Chambery wrote:
> > Not using Compiz (unsupported ATI card), but Ubuntu dropped
> > focus-stealing-prevention a couple versions ago.  This guy describes my
> > situation fairly accurately:
> > 
> > http://elliotth.blogspot.com/2006/12/gnome-focus-stealing-prevention-sick.html
> 
> Mozilla keeps doing their own thing, yes. Nothing new. Further, it is
> not a 'social problem'. Just because a problem might seem easy, doesn't
> make it easy to solve.
> 
That blog post is a bit on the harsh side, and I've no doubt that coming
up with a consistent policy and implementation for focus assignment is a
tough nut to crack.  But.  Every time I type a password into a IM
window, I'm reminded how much I'd rather have a flawed implementation
than none at all.

Todd