Re: [BLUG] Alternative focus

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:39:04PM +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:23:06PM GMT, Steven Black [blacks@indiana.edu] said the following:
> >
> > Some applications think this is a good idea to do with
> > their error dialogs.
>
> That's not cool. Sounds like Windows or something. What programs or
> desktops are you talking about because I remember encountering this?

I think Netscape did this at one time. (Back before it became Mozilla,
and then Firefox.) You'd get a timeout message that would crop up out of
nowhere and grab your focus.

Part of the benefit of common toolkits in X is that they can broadly
control the user experience. This means that application behaviors that
result in poor user experience can be explicitly unsupported in the
toolkits.

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