On Monday 19 November 2001 08:19, Mariusz Pekala wrote:
> Hello,
> There is a bug (well... kind of) in the general idea of pop-up windows. As
> you may be interested in this issue, please consider the following:
>
> Imagine this: you write a letter. Suddenly a pop-up widow pops-up and takes
> keyboard focus.
> You didn't noticed and pressed a Return key. The only thing you noticed was
> disappearing window with some very, very important notice. Now you think -
> what was that???

You should check the mail list archives. We discussed this in detail some 
months ago.

Among the solutions discussed was a messaging component that would provide an 
icon in the system tray. Clicking on it would display a list of non-critical 
messages.  Critical messages should continue to interrupt the user as they 
currently do.

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