Re: Gnome focus stealing prevention causing a problem

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:46:47PM -0400, Sean wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:23:00 +0200
Olav Vitters <olav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Report the bug to the VOIP application authors. They can contact
metacity developers if they need details (metacity-devel-list, see
http://mail.gnome.org/).

Thanks, I will.

The bug is within the application. That should be fixed. There is no
possibility to change the behaviour of metacity. Note that this is part
of the window manager spec. Other window managers are likely to start
behaving the same.

It would be so much nicer if this feature could just be shut off. At
least during a transition period where applications could adjust to the
new convention. Instead, users have to suffer while applications are
converted. This particular application runs on Windows, Macs and many
flavors of Linux, so it takes a long time for them to push a change out.
Especially one that only affects such a small percentage of their users.

It is not something that can just be turned off (lots of code). It has
been in development for over 2 years (IIRC). Every GNOME release it
becomes a little stricter so it works better with applications that
correctly 'support focus prevention'. It is actually not supporting it,
is more about doing the right thing. It has been necessary to become
more stricter as applications have been doing ugly things to break focus
prevention instead of actually doing the right thing.

--
Regards,
Olav
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