Focus Stealing Prevention

[Lea Anthony]

I think 1 second may be better, but as all things in XFCE, it would need to be 
configurable.

-Lea.

On Thursday 30 June 2005 14:44, Richard Stellingwerff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to make a little feature request. I don't have a bugzilla
> account on xfce.org, and I don't intend to make one either, so I'm
> doing it here. I hope that's OK with your guys.
>
> -- THE PROBLEM --
>
> Something I feel that's missing in XFCE is focus stealing prevention.
> I'm sure all of you have experienced how annoying it is when a window
> pops up while you're typing. It can result in accidently closing the
> popup (without even knowing what it was), or sending something to
> someone through an instant message on gaim (just to name an example).
> Imagine this could be your password. Ouch.
>
> Some applications will let you disable focus stealing, but many
> things, like popup messages, ignore this. Besides, fixing this problem
> per application is a silly thing to do anyway, since it's the task of
> the Window Manager.
>
> Now, without saying more things that people could disagree with, I
> have the following solution in mind.
>
>
> -- THE SOLUTION --
>
> The Window Manager (XFWM4) should ONLY give focus to a new window when
> the user hasn't typed anything in the last 2/10th of a second (just to
> name a number). So basically, when someone is typing something in a
> window, the user would not be disturbed by any sudden new windows. The
> window that requested focus should get the URGENT state, so that the
> window will screem for attention by flashing.
>
> It sounds like a simple idea on paper, though I have absolutely no
> idea if it's easy to implement. If I remember correctly, both KDE and
> GNOME (in FC4 I think) already have this feature.
>
> I hope you guys like this idea too.
>
> Kind regards,
> Richard Stellingwerff.
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