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Eric, thanks for sharing some historical perspective on this Fire
behaviour. Makes more sense this way.
> 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.
Yeah, I don't blame you for lopping that out. Sounds... suboptimal. :-)
> 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.
If you have a mechanism for determining that the user is idle so as
to share that information with the messaging servers, that could be a
plausible avenue to take in determining whether the user is likely to
be typing, right now, in the frontmost window.
> 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.
This certainly seems the ideal solution, if it's doable. I wish luck
to whomever considers tackling it. :-) It's the solution Eudora takes
if the user has an unsent outgoing message frontmost; that window is
never hidden by a newly opening window. New windows open behind it,
so the user can keep typing in the outgoing message without worrying
about being interrupted.
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