Il Monday 14 January 2008 23:58:36 Cameron Simpson ha scritto: > He's no so much annoyed by modal dialogues (which are an immense > app UI design failure, but that's another topic), but that they > TAKE THE FOCUS! > > You're typing away in a terminal, some dialogue pops up and your > keyboard focus isn't in the terminal any more. If you're really > lucky you were finishing a pargraph and pressed [Enter] and the > dialogue took that as [OK] and did something. Who knows what? The > dialogue will probably have closed itself! > > It's perfectly possible for a window manager to prevent this, and > KDE can. So can FVWM. > > He's asking if the Gnome WM can prevent this. It's looking like > maybe it can't. you couldn't have explained this problem more clearly :) I'm very susprised that so few users complain about this behaviour of Gnome's WM
