Hi Greg, On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 02:34, Greg K Nicholson <g...@gkn.me.uk> wrote:
> On 25 May 2010 12:29, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Focus stealing *is* less of a problem than making all other window > > openings unpredictable. > > Mark, > > I've proposed a solution (from a user experience point of view) that > prevents focus-stealing while also keeping window-opening predictable: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/67476/comments/16 > > I don't know how practical it would be to implement. > Focus stealing is not solved by band aid. The whole problem lies in the DE's behaviour concerning focus. We have to different focuses that need to be aligned: User's Ayatana, UI's Ayatana. Most of the communication aka interaction between man and machine follows a visual focus. A way to represent this is the mouse cursor with all its dynamic behaviour and influence on the DE's positioning of dialogs and context menus, perhaps soon also context overlay widget-like dialogs. Shane Fagan had a thread on this called "*[Ayatana] Redesigning the Ubuntu mouse cursor for simple notification of app attention *". I've been thinking a lot about focus behaviour, and i think it is a good thing to discuss, since the overall improvement of behaviour in this direction would make the whole user experience more powerful, putting the user into control and giving him a more reliable interface to operate. I can think of another Metacity bug, that has been discussed at length over the last decade: http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/09/yes-dragon-drop-its-a-pun/ "Focus stealing" is a big issue, since it translates to "not being aligned with the user's direction of behaviour". I think any creative discussion on metaphors related to this topic will spawn great ideas that will make IxD better already.
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