On 4/12/06, Kjartan Maraas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ons, 12,.04.2006 kl. 10.38 -0600, skrev Elijah Newren: > > Hi, > > > > Yeah, I suck. I know alarm bells are going off and this looks pretty > > bad. However, the focus behavior for programs launched from a > > terminal unfortunately appears to be really badly hated (yes, this > > only affects users using a terminal). Ubuntu has already patched it > > out (though I'm getting lots of strange bug reports about Ubuntu and > > focus which people report go away with our tarballs, making me think > > there's something amiss in their patches), and the bug is marked as an > > FC5-updates blocker. So, I'm guessing they'll take the patch (or hack > > something else together) even if this isn't approved. I'm not aware > > of the situation in other distros but those are the big two shipping > > with 2.14 right now that I know of. > > > > So, I'd like to apply Ron Yorston's patch in bug 326159 to make a > > focus_new_windows option, which simultaneously changes the default > > behavior back to what it was in 2.12. (I don't feel reverting the > > default without adding the option isn't a good idea; there's no need > > to punch the users in the face who have been requesting 'strict' focus > > options for years and finally saw this bug fixed...it'd just be too > > cruel) > > > > Alternative ideas welcome. I know this really, really sucks, and I > > should be publicly whipped, but it seemed to be worth bringing up for > > your consideration as I think not taking this is going to cause more > > pain and bugs than breaking the freeze. > > > 1/2 from me. I agree with the suckiness of the timing and all, but I > think it's worth it.
After talking with Elijah a bit off-list, yes, I'd like to see this go in- 2/2. Luis _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n