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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.
Adding to my previous email, where I suggested that the ICQ method was the
best way if making the new window come up as second wasn't possible, I
certainly believe that making the new window come up second is the best way,
if it can be done. I second Mark in wishing the the very best to the
whomever tries to tackle it! :-) I'm sorry that my own programming skills
aren't sufficient enough to allow me to help.
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