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GNOME and the way forward

GNOME and the way forward

Posted Aug 18, 2005 10:05 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: GNOME and the way forward by jamesh
Parent article: GNOME and the way forward

If a user starts an application, they want to use it so it should be focused.

I beg to differ. If I want to use an application, I move my mouse to it. I often start an application in the background, and will come back later to it. *I* decide when I come back to it, not the window manager's developer.

This behaviour of GNOME is one of the main reasons why I don't use it, though I tried it several times.

Cheers, Joachim


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