https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377914
Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> changed:
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--- Comment #25 from Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> ---
>From a purely technical perspective, Martin is right: This is not a technical
bug, because it works exactly as he has designed it.
However, that does not keep it from being a massive usability problem.
Sure, from a technical perspective, a popup from an application launcher is a
new window, but not from a user's perspective.
>From a user perspective, it's really just "I click this button, and then that
button spawns a popup as a natural reaction to my click". The popup is an
extension to the button, not a separate window that just happens to be spawned
by the button.
If a user has an expectation towards the system but the system behaves
differently, then from a user perspective it's broken. Users don't care about
what is technically correct, and they should not have to.
Martin, you say that focus-stealing prevention is an advanced feature. You are
certainly right, but I am very certain that there are lots of users out there
who are advanced enough to want to use focus-stealing prevention, but not
advanced enough to understand why that keeps the launcher popup from opening.
The latter knowledge is extremely advanced, as it requires in-depth knowledge
of window management.
So yes, it WORKSFORYOU, but only because you have knowledge that the vast
majority of users - including those who are advanced enough to want to use
focus-stealing prevention - don't have.
>From a social perspective: I don't approve of people reopening bugs that the
maintainer has closed (unless new information has emerged, which was not the
case here), and I do not approve of sarcasm in bug reports either.
On the other hand, I do not approve of punishing all users with refusal to fix
a usability problem because a few users behaved inappropriately in a bug
report, either. I do not think this is fair towards the other users who have
never misbehaved but would be stuck with a usability problem, anyway.
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