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There was a topic on brainstorm about this: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17434/ I wrote a comment in that one (User Triqui) and I whish this can be solved. Cause I think it's more important than only password fields. The front/current window must keep the focus no matter what. Only user input should move the focus away. For instance: I need to copy something to a remote server. In fact several remote servers. So I start opening connections with them. Most of the times I'll type half of the username in the login window for the first server I opened and the other half in the login window for the second one. So I have to wait for all the login windows to show up. When I have typed all the users and password, sometimes they will take some more time to actually open a window. So I go to my personal folder and start moving, renaming, compressing the files I have to copy. Most of the times, the windows from the servers start popping up and then I cannot finish what I was doing until all the windows are open. It's very difficult to click on files of select some of them and apply some commands while windows keep opening in front of the window you are using. So I have to wait again. Then I start copying files to the different servers, and maybe deleting some old versions from them. I start doing it for one server then for the next one and so on. But when I copy/move/delete and then move to the next window to do the same thing, this "operations on files" progress window keeps moving to the front, so I have to click back in the window behind to continue copying/moving/deleting. This is just an example, and it's not so bad, since all I have to do is forget multitasking and wait for every single operation to complete before I do something else. The real problem arises when I'm writing a mail or renaming a file or something like that and them some window pops up unexpectedly and then I type 3 or 4 letters and press enter before I realize focus has changed. You know what that means? I haven't read the message and I have pressed one of the buttons randomly without knowing. I come from Mac OS 6. When they added some sort of multitasking to the system, they did it properly and the system would never move the focus away from the current window unless there was some sort of user input to do it. It worked perfectly till Mac OS 9. I was very happy (I didn't know then that I was happy), but I was forced to move to windows. They have this problem with focus too. Then I moved to ubuntu cause I thought this sort of things (The Really Important Stuff) were a lot more polished than in windows. But then I find the most annoying, stupid and important usability bug is present in Windows, Ubuntu and I heard in Mac OS X too. And probably other linux distributions as well. This needs to be fixed. The front/current window must keep the focus no matter what. Only user input should move the focus away. ** Affects: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: metacity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Do not raise windows or dialogs without user input https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/495403 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
