Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> The number of times Vista lets the focus get stolen is annoying too. XP
>> was real good at that, and I understand Vista tries to prevent
>> pop-unders or something by not letting you *not* steal the focus. Seems
>> like the wrong answer, to me.
>>
> 
> That one of the most annoying things with XP. Focus stealing, I mean.

Except you can turn that off at the window manager level, and it works 
almost 100% of the time.  With Vista, it works mainly when you didn't want 
it to work in the first place, somehow.

> IMO only the critical messages from OS should appear like that
> and have OK-button disabled for 5 secs oslt, so they could be even
> noticed before hitting enter.

Yeah, firefox does this pretty well.

> Of course configurability would be optimal
> choice - let everyone choose what level of focus stealing they want.

It's ... already there. :-) There's even a parameter that says "if I haven't 
typed in this many seconds, let apps steal the focus."

You might want to download TweakUI from Microsoft and look at all the stuff 
it makes easy to configure.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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