Re: behavior of gnome-panel

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 11:45 -0800, Wil Willis wrote:
> Hey folks, when I double click on a hyperlink  (url) in Thunderbird, I 
> have to go to the panel and click on the pulsing blue minimized tab to 
> maximize the page.
> 
> Isn't there a way to get the focus to behave such that the brower will 
> display the tab fully opened?

I think you're describing an intentional (and very annoying)
behavior on the Metacity window manager:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482354#c115

I have no idea why anybody thinks this is the right way to
do things. It just means I have to click again to confirm
the things I want to do, based on something as arbitrary
as whether or not I happen to already have an application
running.

--
Shaun