Re: Do-not-disturb protocol

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Tuomo Valkonen wrote:

> On 2006-01-19, Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz> wrote:
>  
>
> > Actually ... see 
> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-0.1.txt . 
> > The feature is called focus stealing prevention in KDE, GNOME has an 
> > implementation of it too since some time ago.
> >    
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of something passed in the environment,
> so it would work for programs started from a terminal or just simple scripts
> and so on, even remotely. Also a crucial element is a way to pass something
> to the window manager that identifies the launcher window. WM_LAUNCHED_BY or
> something. Of course, with there being such a property set by X programs
> aware of such by any mechanism, it would be a simple matter to check for the
> WINDOWID environment variable to see if we're running in a terminal and
> using that instead assuming a reliable kludges to deal with launches by X
> applications unaware of such protocols themselves launched from terminals.
>  
I would be very cautions about implementing this in any way other than 
focus-stealing-prevention, since I think it would cause accessibility 
problems.  For instance, assistive technologies must be able to interact 
with the user at all times, regardless of what other applications might 
be running.

Bill