Re: Gnome focus stealing prevention causing a problem

[Sean <seanlkml sympatico ca>]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:23:00 +0200
Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org> wrote:

> Report the bug to the VOIP application authors. They can contact
> metacity developers if they need details (metacity-devel-list, see
> http://mail.gnome.org/).

Thanks, I will.

> The bug is within the application. That should be fixed. There is no
> possibility to change the behaviour of metacity. Note that this is part
> of the window manager spec. Other window managers are likely to start
> behaving the same.

It would be so much nicer if this feature could just be shut off.  At
least during a transition period where applications could adjust to the
new convention.  Instead, users have to suffer while applications are
converted.  This particular application runs on Windows, Macs and many
flavors of Linux, so it takes a long time for them to push a change out.
Especially one that only affects such a small percentage of their users.

Sean