Calum Benson wrote: > On 15 Sep 2009, at 13:39, Bob Doolittle wrote: >> Frank Middleton wrote: >>> Maybe I missed a configuration option, but how about not bringing >>> windows to the front unless you hit the front key or click on the >>> title bar? If you are copying and pasting from one window to another >>> it used to be easier because you could keep the source window on top. >> +1 * 1000 >> >> It's *so* annoying trying to drag a message from thunderbird inbox >> window (which I normally have maximized in its own workspace) into a >> compose window attachment when every time I click the inbox window it >> jumps to the front and obscures my compose window. > See > <http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2009/03/09/yes-dragon-drop-its-a-pun/> > for some background to this long-standing issue.
Thanks Calum, but that's a very specific application of "click and drag", as applied to a policy that otherwise always raises windows on clicks. That's indeed hard to solve, nice as it would be to have. However, what we are asking for is more generic, simpler to implement, and would solve this problem (for the special case we care about, anyway). Simply: provide an option which says "don't raise a window on a click". This is important to people who want to work in environments with partially-obscured windows. If that was a policy that was in place in general, then click-and-drag wouldn't have to be special-cased, and we wouldn't run into the issues described at that URL. -Bob > >> Also, why isn't "Lower" an available titlebar right-click menu option? > > I'd guess simply because not enough people (in the wider GNOME > community) use Raise and Lower to merit inclusion on the menu... if > enough people complain, there's more chance of it appearing. We could > also consider doing a local patch just for OpenSolaris, if there's > sufficient demand (but we prefer not to do that kind of thing). > > You can at least set up separate keyboard shortcuts for Raise and > Lower in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog, if you wish -- by default, we > only set one for "Raise if obscured, otherwise Lower", which is bound > to the Front (F15) key. > > Cheeri, > Calum. >
