RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:35:03 -0600
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Yes, exactly.  You're saying that
> 	1. there are cases where you want a window to pop up
> 	2. it's too complicated to figure out which windows should
> pop up 3. so windows should always pop up, no point being configurable
> 
> and ridiculing us over (2).  I'm saying there are no cases where I
> want a popup, so we can easily have 2 configurable options: always
> have windows pop up and take focus, never have them do so.
> 
> That's all.

You are actually asking for configuration options ?

That's not possible in the new order, where people is actively trimming
out any word^woption that is redundant and deviates from the norm (the
norm being what someone else like not necessarily what works best).

/me bis bis bitter ;-)

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York