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At one point in early development I had it set up so that this was the
case, however there are two big problems with it
1) The original way that I did it automatically brought the "main"
window back forward after a new window showed up. This was visually
jarring and difficult to deal with.
2) Fire had no way (and still really doesn't) of knowing whether you
were "active" in the window or if it just happened to be the front most
window becuase you left it that way six hours ago.
These two problems (and the fact that Fire was essentially and AIM clone
at the time) led me to drop the feature.
This has affected me many times in the past as well (far less so now
that I don't IM as much).
Possible solutions
a) Have an option to never display *new* windows at all until the user
selects the Fire icon, or some icon in the buddy list, etc. Like ICQ.
I've always *hated* that feature in ICQ but I can understand why some
people like it.
b) Find a way to layer the *new* windows behind the "active" window,
tiled, as you suggest. There is no trivial way to do this in X, but
there may be easy ways. Or it could be a LOT of code. I don't know.
In either case, it will not happen for the next release (0.30.a) nor am
I planning on working on it. If Colter or someone else wants to tackle
it, I have no problem helping to test it, but my schedule is very very
tight right now. (Which may be why many of you have noticed that
Colter, Jason, Stick, and the Chris' did almost all of the work on 0.30)
Eric
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Mark H. Anbinder wrote:
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> Colter writes...
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>> If that's what you've told Eudora to do, that's what it should do.
>> I don't use Eudora, so I'm not familiar with its operation.
>
> Actually, Qualcomm refers to the inability to do anything BUT fling new
> windows in front of the user's frontmost application as a bug in Mac OS
> X. It's probably not Fire's fault.
>
>> Honestly, how much of a problem is that? Do you have new windows
>> cropping up *that* frequently?
>
> I do. Maybe I'm unusual (though I suspect not), but I don't leave
> windows open all day for everyone I chat with. I close inactive
> windows, and they reopen when a new conversation starts, whether I
> initiate it or the other party does.
>
> I, too, find it frustrating that a newly opened message window
> essentially intercepts whatever I was typing in a previously open
> window. This is VERY frustrating (and potentially very damaging) when I
> finish typing a sentence and hit return, sending something to the new
> window that was not intended for that person.
>
> Making Fire open new windows behind the frontmost window (staggered, of
> course, so they're not entirely hidden) would be a VERY welcome
> improvement to the UI.
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