Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-07-11 Thread Rob Campbell
On 2013-05-29, at 18:58 , Justin Dolske dol...@mozilla.com wrote: On 5/29/13 3:09 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Typically when you use the terminal to open an application on Mac, the application is opened in the background. Mmm, indeed. Someone told me long ago this this was a platform

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-07-11 Thread André Reinald
On 11/07/13 15:38, Rob Campbell wrote: On 2013-05-29, at 18:58 , Justin Dolske dol...@mozilla.com wrote: On 5/29/13 3:09 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Typically when you use the terminal to open an application on Mac, the application is opened in the background. Mmm, indeed. Someone told me long

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-07-10 Thread Markus Stange
On 30.05.13 00:09, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: So I'd like to ask, if you care about this, which way would _you_ have as the default? Definitely with -foreground. At the moment I always add it manually. -Markus ___ dev-platform mailing list

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-07-10 Thread Josh Matthews
On 05/29/2013 06:09 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Typically when you use the terminal to open an application on Mac, the application is opened in the background. This means that for example when you use mach run or mach debug, you need to either use the mouse or a painful sequence of keyboard

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-07-10 Thread Justin Dolske
On 5/29/13 3:09 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Typically when you use the terminal to open an application on Mac, the application is opened in the background. Mmm, indeed. Someone told me long ago this this was a platform convention, but it sure is annoying. Seems like a nice refinement to me.

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-05-30 Thread Mike de Boer
I vote for foreground as a default as well! ++ On May 30, 2013, at 1:40 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-05-29 6:45 PM, André Reinald wrote: I think the default behavior should stay as it is. But I suggest having the mach script read a setting (from mozconfig or

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-05-30 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Thanks for your feedback everyone. Most of the people who replied both here and off-list agreed that foreground should be the default, so I posted a patch on bug 863754 to do that when Firefox is launched using mach. I encourage somebody to take the time and modify Firefox itself to do that

Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-05-29 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Typically when you use the terminal to open an application on Mac, the application is opened in the background. This means that for example when you use mach run or mach debug, you need to either use the mouse or a painful sequence of keyboard shortcuts in order to get to the Firefox window that

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-05-29 Thread Till Schneidereit
Oh yes, please, a thousand times yes! On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.comwrote: Typically when you use the terminal to open an application on Mac, the application is opened in the background. This means that for example when you use mach run or mach

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-05-29 Thread André Reinald
I think the default behavior should stay as it is. But I suggest having the mach script read a setting (from mozconfig or elsewhere) to decide which way to launch Firefox. This should satisfy all developers. André Le 30/05/13 00:16, Till Schneidereit a écrit : Oh yes, please, a thousand

Re: Proposal to make Firefox open in the foreground on Mac when launched from terminal

2013-05-29 Thread Nick Alexander
So I'd like to ask, if you care about this, which way would _you_ have as the default? I want |mach run| to start the application in the foreground. Nick ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org