This week I have been trying to get GNOME to sit up and realize that changing from focus theft to pop-under is less than ideal.[2][3][4][5] After a somewhat rocky start,[1] I finally seem to be making progress. This pleases me not only for the narcissistic reasons, but because it really will make a difference to our users. For all I am more than willing to utterly disregard the opinions and reports of demanding and/or annoying users, I do care about the success of Gaim, and do want the Linux users' experiences with it to be as pleasant as possible. That is why I have gone along with things like slashing preferences even though it is not always defaulting in ways I like. Still, it is very frustrating to deal with these GNOME guys. They are so convinced that it is absolutely essential to usability that the focused window not be obscured…
[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2005-May/msg00011.html
[2]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2005-May/msg00007.html and
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[3]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157270
[4] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305499
[5]
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120439