2013/4/24 Cas <1168...@bugs.launchpad.net>: > >From my position the logic behind the changes just don't make sense and > I am thinking of the bigger picture not just Deluge. > > I can open any file with xdg-open, with the associated application > opening focused, file-roller, image viewer, firefox etc... So that begs > the question why is Nautilus a special case and we have to jump through > hoops to open a Nautilus window focused?
I see your point, and I also was thinking the same, but there's some rationale over it and what we eventually want is that if you run a program you should pass some platform-data to it, that in general includes the timestamp of the event that triggered that action in order to define if the newly opened window should or not befocused by WM. In general the WM always focuses new windows, but Nautilus is a particular case because it stays always opened in background (to draw the desktop) and so, when called, in order to be able to focus a new window it needs to say to the WM when this request has been done. This is not only a problem that affects Nautilus, btw. Also Empaty was affected (I proposed a patch for it as well, as for the indicator-messages), Rythmbox and more. See bug lp:627195 FYI, the same behavior is applied by gnome-shell as well (to say that it's not a compiz problem, but a feature). > An application developer when using xdg-open should not have to worry > about special cases involving Nautilus file manager to have the new > window focused like every other application. Well, in general it should not use xdg-open directly I think, but he should use the APIs that the environment is providing to open files and folders. And everybody should start thinking that if an action could leads to opening a new window, then that should be properly formed in order to have the WM to focus it. > With 13.04 so close to release all the applications that use the 'open > folder' feature will encounter this issue and users (inc devs?) will be > irate but you have not addressed this concern? I see the point, and as said, I've put all my efforts to fix this properly, but not WM or Nautilus side, but Application side (that is where it must fixed). Standard has changed since long time, and developers should sync with it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1168858 Title: Nautilus window opens behind current window To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1168858/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
