Bug Report - Feature request : focus-when-mapped

[Jerome Andrieux <jeromeandrieux nerim net>]

Hello,
I'm using sawfish 1.3 and obviously put my finger on a missing feature 
(which was in 1.2).

I set, as a global setting, "focus-window-when-mapped" true, but I'd 
like new windows (especially popups like gaim conversation windows) not 
to get focus when mapped on screen, so I set focus-when-mapped to "no" 
in sawfish-ui.
The *problem* is that the application property seems overriden by the 
default settings as follow.
Here is the .sawfish/custom obtained from sawfish-ui concerning those 
two settings :
	(((WM_NAME . "^Calculator$")) (focus-when-mapped . #f))
to get xcalc not focused when mapped in opposition to other windows :
	(custom-set-typed-variable (quote focus-windows-when-mapped) (quote t) 
(quote boolean))
Result : all new windows are focused, even Xcalc, no way to get it 
unfocused when mapped.

NB : note that doing things the other way round works perfectly :
	(((WM_NAME . "^Calculator$")) (focus-when-mapped . t))
to get xcalc focused when mapped in opposition to other windows :
	(custom-set-typed-variable (quote focus-windows-when-mapped) (quote f) 
(quote boolean))
Result : all new windows are *not* focused except Xcalc.

After some exploration in the source files 
(sawfish/lisp/wm/state/transient.jl) and some IRCing, it appears that :
. in 1.2, focus-when-mapped accepted three values : 'never, 'always and 
'unset (windows-get returns #f) ;
. in 1.3, focus-when-mapped accepts only two, and it seems impossible to 
get if user set it to #f :/.

Would it be possible to get this feature back ?

As a feature request, would it be possible to get new windows to get 
focus only if user is not typing (just like KDE 3.2 does, which I was 
said but haven't tested yet), this would avoid popup window to come up 
and get your focus, but will allow you to launch a term via a keymap and 
directly get the focus. Maybe is this feature doable via X idle time ...

Thanks,

PS : If in some way, this post would need to be turned in a bug report, 
I'm in #sawfish @ irc.freenode.org, jerome.
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