Application is ready notification

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 18:55:02 UTC 2014


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone here knows of the design rationale for the
> (seemingly intermittent to me) notification i get informing me that an
> application window is ready for my attention.
>
> I seem to get these most when opening a file in the default application from
> firefox, or opening an application from the terminal, or sometimes when
> clicking on a notification from an application. In all cases when I see this
> notification, I did want to see the application window to appear and get
> focus.
>
> There is a shell extenstion available to turn off this application is ready
> behaviour, which I do use, but IMO, this would be a useful default behaviour
> to have turned on in Workstation.
>

Focus stealing prevention ... i.e you don't want the password you have
been typing in a terminal to get into the chat app you just lanuched
;)

For some cases it triggers even though it shouldn't in that cases some
apps are broken (opening windows without or with wrong timestamps).


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