Ian Burrell wrote:
On 1/31/06, Miles Lane miles.lane@gmail.com wrote:
I cannot understand why on earth xorg or Gnome has been changed to render new application behind gnome-terminal. Every time I run a program (surprise!) I want to use it. I don't want to keep playing around with gnome-terminal. So, can we please strip this change out of Fedora Core?
I much prefer the new behavior. I used to always have trouble typing going into the wrong window when a new application started while I was typing into another. No more sending the root password over IM. Personally, I think apps should show above but never ever take focus. I am pretty sure apps can say that their modal dialogs should show above and get focus so they don't end up hidden.
The problem I have with that is that the popup dialogs are the worst offenders. I'll be typing into a word processor, and a long running background process pops up a dialog saying, "An unexpected error has occurred. Delete the database?" just as I'm about to type <TAB> <ENTER>. Bye-bye database!