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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

> I've proposed a solution (from a user experience point of view) that
> prevents focus-stealing while also keeping window-opening predictable:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/67476/comments/16
> 
> 2. When a new window appears, it should appear immediately behind the
> focused window (even if the focused window isn't frontmost). If no
> window is focused, the new window should open frontmost and focused.

I'm not sure if I agree with this one. I dedicate some workspaces to
a single fullscreen app (ex: firefox), and I never bother to peek at
the taskbar of those workspaces because nothing else is supposed to
be there. The suggestion above would make alert windows appear
behind firefox and stay there for a long time before me noticing.

That's the main reason I dislike the current behavior of the update
manager window. :)

I personally think a better approach would be something like the
morphing things suggested in the notification guidelines: in
front, without focus and translucid. Wherever you were typing,
you can keep typing.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines#morphing