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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: RFC windows steeling focus
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2003-02-12 12:00:26
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On Wednesday 12 of February 2003 12:55, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> Klas Kalass wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003 10:46 schrieb Ferdinand Gassauer:
> >> Neil Stevens wrote:
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> >> > On Tuesday February 11, 2003 10:02, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> >> >> Hi!
> >> >> IMHO the "steeling focus" needs attention

 More than attention it needs somebody to implement it.

> >> >> Problem:
> >> >> a window pops up and steels focus and the user is typing someting in
> >> >> a window where he/she does not want to.
> >> >
> >> > KWin already doesn't let focus get stolen, though.
> >>
> >> Just happend in CVS
> >> Do I have to change some settings?
> >
> > Does it happen for dialogs or for newly started apps? AFAIK stealing
> > focus does not happen when an app starts in the background (this is
> > probably what Neil refers to), but when a dialog pops up.
>
> I have kmail open and do something else in Konsole or kword etc
> the download dialog asking if big mails should be donwloaded pops up
> steeling focus and disappeas immediately if you hit space or the shortcut
> for ok

 KWin even has a bugreport for that, and I've lifted its priority a bit. But 
it's not as simple as making the dialog not to accept focus (one could that 
way easily end up with half a dozen important dialogs open somewhere in the 
background).

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Lubos Lunak
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