systemd comparison with GNOME 3 is slightly unfair

Posted Jun 22, 2011 17:17 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: systemd comparison with GNOME 3 is slightly unfair by mjg59
Parent article: Fedora, systemd, and changes

> For a bunch of reasons (including an increased number of situations in which applications need passwords, websites that pop up timeout windows on idle sessions, a wider range of things that provide notifications) it's now far more likely that a window of some description may appear under your mouse. It's not clear what the right thing to do in that situation is, and most of the traditional approaches can result in awkwardnesses like you suddenly typing your password into an IM client.

I solve this by having it so that no window can *ever* steal keyboard focus (the exception is if the currently focused window disappears, but with tiling, it is usually pretty apparent from the windows changing for the new geometry). I use sloppy focus and one of the things that I did not like about GNOME 2's (CentOS 5.6) FFM implementation is that it will change focus if the mouse moves over a window some minimum distance (though not if it's stationary) where I'm used to it only happening when crossing into a window across one of its borders and click-to-focus was the better choice. I could see where if the previous behavior was kept, this problem would happen, but if better focus stealing prevention existed (even just "Default", "When different application", or "Never") or sloppy focus were used, it wouldn't be that much of an issue.