Re: _NET_WM_[GET_|TAKE_|REQUEST_]FOCUS & urgency

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Rob Adams wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:37 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  
>
> > Adding that option to Kopete seemed perfectly fine to me, because
> > that's a 
> > user setting that defaults to off. It's not a broken application
> > abusing the 
> > spec, it's a deliberately activated option.
> >    
>
> You can have an option like that, but it should be a desktop-global
> option, implemented by the WM.  Something like "Activate windows that
> require attention."  Metacity is unlikely to include that preference,
> but of course KDE and GNOME have slightly different philosophies.
>  
There seems to be a conflict here; if "the user is king" then it makes 
sense to allow the user to specify that a particular kind of window gets 
raised automatically on creation.  If the WM doesn't expose such a 
preference, then either the user will be denied the feature, or another 
means to expose it must be used (e.g. gdk_window_present).

I think the gaim use case is a very informative one.

- Bill

> -Rob
>
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