Bug #43760 was more about the fact that evolution shouldn't make warnings pop all the time. I think this bug is more fundamental in the sense that even if popping up a window is justified, it is *never* (I still haven't found a counter-example) justified to make the new window steal focus. It's a very dangerous thing to do. Most (older) window managers used to have an option to control that. Not only did metacity remove that option, but it left the bad behaviour as the only option available.
Here's another case to consider -- a bit unlikely, but quite catastrophic. 1) My system has a high load and is slow 2) I fire up a terminal, but it takes a long time before showing up 3) I go back to another terminal and in some directory, I type "rm -rf *" 4) A fraction of a second before 3) happens, my new terminal pops up and steals focus (without me noticing) 5) I just deleted my entire home directory because I didn't notice 4) fast enough. I'd basically call this a user-based race condition. -- New windows shouldn't steal focus https://launchpad.net/bugs/51242 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
