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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: RFC windows steeling focus
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-02-12 12:25:24
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Lubos Lunak wrote:

> 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).
> 
Hmm! I didn't say that these should pop up in the background 
What I dislike is that during typing the input switches and I enter data in
a window I do not want. That's why I mentioned the "delay" option.
BTW On one site I currently use KDE with VNC, so I do not hear a bell
neither. 
And I know it might be difficult to achieve a good, generaly accepted
solution.
-- 
cu
ferdinand
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