begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0700: > On Apr 10, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >This is where the Apple Dock with it's useless bouncing icons becomes > >useful (even though Apple *still* has programs that steal focus) -- > >when something wants my attention, it bounces its own icon. > > Jack-Russell Terrier behavior of some applications' Dock icons aside, > Apple really got it right with document-modal dialogs (which present > as sheets that pop out of the specific window's title bar). There
I'm trying to think if I've ever had one of those "steal the focus" while I was typing something in. I can't think of any... > are still system-modal dialogs, but very few that actually pop into > my mind as distractingly annoying. It happens rarely, but it's happened a few times at (naturally) the most inopportune time. Quite often, there's quite a bit of lag between my brain and my fingers, as my brain "types ahead" of my fingers -- it's quite annoying to see one's password typed in to a field in a dialog box.... > There are still third-party software developers, however, that insist > on using system-modal dialogs. Those don't last very long on my system. One would think that the OS could handle this sort of thing for us. Hell, there's probably a magic checkbox that says "Let System Modal Dialog Boxes Steal Focus", and it's on by default. -- Perhaps I should go back to click-to-focus and see if that helps. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
