Gvim window activated by mutt doesn't gain focus

[Biju Chacko]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote:

> Olivier FOURDAN wrote on Jan, 10:
>
> [...]
>
>>> focus ? I can't think of a mutt/gvim scenario where I'd create a new mail
>>> editing buffer if I didn't want to edit it (give it focus). It's the least
>>> surprising thing to be done.
>
>> I understand you point, but there is nothing I can do about that. Maybe you
>> could ask the GVIM people to pass a 0 as "source indication" (as explained
>> on the given link, clients using older version of this spec use 0 as source
>> indication, see the section called "Source indication in requests" for
>> details), so that no timestamp gets involved in the NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW focus
>> mechanism.
>
> I was submitting the bug report on gvim and it occurred to me: wouldn't it be
> a valid feature an xfwm4 config option to ignore the timestamp from
> NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW and always give focus ? The "rule of least surprise" may be
> worth abiding to even if that means patronizing misbehaved applications such
> as gvim. A config option might be a fair compromise.

In general, we dislike trying to work around bugs in other applications -- 
it removes the incentive to get the bugs fixed, for one thing. Another 
problem is that it adds cruft to our code base and hurts maintainability.

It's Olivier's call naturally, but I don't think he'll agree to this.

-- b