RFE: Never, ever steal focus.
Serge E. Hallyn
serue at us.ibm.com
Wed Jan 6 19:07:03 UTC 2010
Quoting Simo Sorce (ssorce at redhat.com):
> 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 ?
Haha, no :) I was just answering his question ("come up with a way to
identify windows to not pop up"). When I get annoyed enough by it I'll
either hack it in myself, or finally hack zoom into evilwm to use with
xcompmgr and really be happy.
> 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 ;-)
Shut up and rm that libfoo.a :)
-serge
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