Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2009-09-03, Aceler wrote:
> John Tapsell johnflux at gmail.com wrote at Tue Sep 1 07:00:55 PDT 2009:
> >> Another issue - stealing focus. In X Window, every app that requests
> >> focus, gets it.
> >
> > I think KWin disables focus stealing by default.  Either way, you can
> > turn it on focus-stealing-prevention.
>
> Well, if you turn the focus stealing prevention in Kwin on, it will prevent
> focus stealing from all windows... including Open/Save dialogs for example.

I haven't tried the most rigid setting, but I think that even then it respects 
transientFor, i.e. knows that it is dealing with a subwindow of the currently 
interactive app. At least it does on default settings.

Cheers,
Kevin
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