[openbeos] Re: inconsistency?

Adi Oanca <adioanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>       Now, I have no problem with that - as long as one of application's 
> windows has the focus(we're working with it).
>       I don't like when I'm working with one window belonging to 
> application 
> X and a window belonging to application Y which already has a window, 
> pops in front of the one I'm working with.
>       I'm proposing the 2+nd/rd/th window of an application be shown in 
> front 
> of the previous ones. If all application's windows are hidden, it's 
> shown behind 
> the one which has focus.

I don't particularly like that, because even if a window has focus, it 
doesn't mean I am working with it. For example, when I have an open 
browser window with some news article in it, but I am currently on the 
phone, eating, or busy with anything else, it wouldn't make that much 
sense for that window to open in the background.
I would like an intelligent system much better: if you are currently 
typing something in a window, that window shouldn't lose focus - in 
that case, I would prefer the other window to open in the background or 
in a way that I don't lose my input in the new window.

I would think that special support of a flag like this would actually 
create an inconsistent behaviour for the user, as he cannot easily 
determine why one window was created in the background, while the other 
one is still annoying him. Having a mechanism that detects current and 
active input would be defensive: it would only come to action when the 
user would be annoyed if it didn't.

Bye,
   Axel.

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