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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Le lundi 24 mai 2010 à 17:29 +0200, Sense Hofstede a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to ask for some feedback regarding bug
> <https://launchpad.net/bugs/495403>, which was reported in December
> 2009 and is still pending as a papercut. The reported issue is that it
> is possible for windows to steal the focus when you're typing
> something. The example given by the reporter was when connecting to
> several servers at the same time with Nautilus. Due to a delay in the
> load time of the servers he would already be filling in his password
> for one of the servers when Nautilus would let a dialogue for another
> server steal the focus, making him type half the password in the
> different dialogue and then press enter.
> 
> This is indeed irritating behaviour, and I think it is something we
> ought to fix, but I do have some questions.
> 
> Isn't this already solved? With autologin enabled you get a dialogue
> from gnome-keyring that after having started e.g. Empathy for the
> first time that asks for your password to unlock the keyring. I think
> that it is already not possible to steal the focus of that dialogue.
> 
> Is this a valid papercut, i.e. is this easy to fix? I'm not familiar
> with the source code, so I can't say.
> 
> Should we only prevent stealing the focus from dialogues, or also from
> regular windows? I think it could work confusing to do this for all
> windows, so I'd be in favour for just the dialogues.
> 
> Regards,

I think the ideal would be not to steal focus *if the user is
currently typing*, but then we go into non-trivial fix world
and out of the papercut world.