Re: NM versus wpa_gui

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 07:52 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 05:08 +0000, Volker Braun wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:37:28 +0000, Phil Mayers wrote:
> > >> Try the svn stable branch, there were some improvements. 
> > > Specifically in fixing the Z-order of the popup?
> > 
> > No, thats still broken. I think the correct behaviour for the popup
> > should be 
> > A) go to top of the window stack
> > B) not steal focus from the currently active window 
> > Right now, it goes behind all other windows :-(
> 
> Patches appreciated...  I looked at this quickly a while ago and
> couldn't find anything out of the ordinary.
> 

Unfortunately I think this needs to be addressed within Metacity.  They
wanted 100% consistency with applications launching popup windows, so
basically everything gets started in the background and hinted *urgent*.
This behaviour has been driving me insane recently.  It really doesn't
work well when you have lot's of windows open. 

For a while I was wondering if libnotify would be a better user
experience for most dialogs.  That look consistent, stack, appear on the
top layer of the screen and don't steal focus.  Just a thought.

Jon

> 
> > 
> > > I'll try, but as I say when driven from "disconnected" to "associated" 
> > > by wpa_gui it takes well under a second to associate, and is rock solid 
> > > once done.
> > 
> > If its that fast then NM ought to work fine. Try head =
> > branches/NETWORKMANAGER_0_6_0_RELEASE from svn.
> > 
> > Volker
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