2010/6/21 Matthew Paul Thomas <[email protected]> > >> So how do you define "started doing something else"? > > > > Something else is mouse and/or keyboard activity in an other > > application. > > So how do you define "activity"? > > If the mouse button is actually *down*, or a keyboard key is actually > *pressed*, when a window from another application requests a raise, it > should not be raised. That much is obvious (and seems to be a bug in > current Metacity). > > But what if you released the mouse button, or the keyboard key, 0.1 > seconds before the other window requests the raise? You're quite likely > to be in the middle of a double-click or of typing a word. So the window > shouldn't be raised then either. > > Ok, so what if you released the mouse button, or the keyboard key, 0.5 > seconds before the other window requests the raise? The same applies, > just a bit less certainly. > > So, we've gone as far as ignoring raise requests 0.5 seconds after the > last release event. But what about one whole second after? Two seconds? > Three? Five? Ten? >
If I have chosen to actively use another application/window, the new application should never take the focus even if it takes it 24 hours to start. The application, when ready starting should raise URGENT signals, and/or notifications, and it could also feel very free to display itself under my used windows if I'm not working in a maximized environment. But I *chose* to work in this other window, and any other application can't decide when I'm done doing that, except if I have closed or minimized this other window. Maybe I'm reading something at the moment? I know this kind of breaks the other way, if I'm reading something that was already up, without focusing it, but at least then it's no surprise, and I can easily learn to focus that window. It's still way way better than getting that interruption we do today. :) Sometimes we launch applications just because we need them later/soonish. My workday usually starts like that. Then email and eclipse goes to the other monitor with some compiz magic, but that isn't possible at home, because I only have one screen... as an example. :) When I do that I very much do not want to be interrupted, but I like to have the apps up and running when I'm ready for them. / K _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
