Re: [Usability] Re: Error dialogs (among others?) and focus stealing prevention

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 08:25 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Interesting idea.  I'll try to do some tests locally to find out. 
> There also appears to be another half to the question, though, that I
> think is important:  How many windows that are supposed to get a
> timestamp of 0 (i.e. unexpected windows) will end up getting a real
> timestamp if we try to rely on the current event rather than a hint
> from the application?

My view is that failing to focus windows that need focus is a worse evil
than focusing some "out of the blue" windows, if it comes down to a
tradeoff there, I would say focus by default and require apps to set the
timestamp to 0 to avoid it.

But of course if we can have gtk get this right nearly always without
app changes, that's much better.

Havoc