https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377914
--- Comment #31 from r...@alum.mit.edu --- If this could be implemented by providing a window-specific rule, perhaps the bug could be fixed by distributing that rule with either the Plasma or kwin base package. But it needs to apply to anything -- application launcher, menu, what have you -- triggered by interacting with the panel. The current behavior makes absolutely no sense from a user standpoint. If I click on the browser menu bar, a menu pops up regardless of the FSP. Interacting with the panel is, from my perspective, _exactly the same operation_. In reference comment 12, *the panel is the "currently active application"*. Maybe it's not _implemented_ that way, but from a user perspective, that's what it is. I don't care if this isn't usable with click to focus. I don't know offhand why it isn't, but I don't particularly care per se; I use focus follows mouse - mouse precedence (with both click raises active window and raise on hover disabled, if that makes any difference). I absolutely need focus stealing prevention. To be quite honest, even high isn't high enough. There are still cases where firefox (when it starts up) and LibreOffice (at various times when a file is being saved or a computation is in progress -- as I said, I have a spreadsheet where those can take minutes, and yes I used the wrong tool, and no I'm not going to rewrite it as a database app any time soon) grabs the focus, and whatever I'm typing goes into it. My login procedure prompts for a number of passwords. Firefox takes its time coming up (the problem with a ridiculous number of extensions and tabs, but foo), and at some point in the whole process, pops itself on top of those password prompts and helps itself to the focus. Why does FF do this? Why does LO do this? BTHOOM. I don't know why; all I know is that I don't want it to do that. Extreme FSP would likely put a stop to it, but at the cost of making the panel entirely unusable. I suppose I could learn how the rules work (if I could figure out what "window classes" are and such) and write a bunch, but I'm not a window management expert and have rather less than ardent desire to become one. I rather doubt that I'm the only user who has this problem, and the comments here confirm that. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
