The end of the nice GTK button

Re:The end of the nice GTK button by hn_version_0023 on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:28AM (#30801294)

This reminds me of one of my personal bugaboos, which seems especially bad in Microsoft Windows: windows that spawn child windows that require input focus, but that don’t grab focus leaving you typing into nothing at all!

Truly its crazy making.

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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by drdec on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:48AM (#30801499)

IMHO, a worse practice is when you are happily typing along and the system throws up a dialog randomly, grabbing the focus and thereby "pressing" one of the buttons when you thought you were typing. Who knows what you just agreed to.

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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by account42 on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:31AM (#30801916)

I'm glad that KDE has options to prevent that: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kwin/kcontrol/windowbehaviour...

Generally if you were interacting with the computer then whatever new thing should get focus iff its appearance was a direct result of your current interaction.

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