Re: [Usability] Re: Error dialogs (among others?) and focus stealing prevention
- From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>
- To: usability gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Usability] Re: Error dialogs (among others?) and focus stealing prevention
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:53:27 -0400
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:46 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
[...]
> The fact that the user needs to manually focus a window is _a
> good thing_, because it's better for the keystrokes that the user
> might be typing at the time the modal dialog appears out of nowhere to
> be ignored than to have them be given as input to the out-of-the-blue
> dialog and possibly cause an erroneous action.
+1
I'm very much in support of this.
I've often wished for a little area of screen where new windows would
hover impatiently, shivering, waiting for me to allow them onto the
main screen.
Many information-bearing pop-up distractions could more usefully be
replaced by a short message in a scrollable status area at the bottom
of the window, for that matter.
Liam
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