On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:43:00AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from David Cantrell
> > Please don't take focus away from the window I'm working in.  Please
> > don't cover up any of the many windows I've carefully arranged so that
> > I can see everything I need.
> I would say it only appears if the tests failed.  I would prefer that to 
> take focus rather than needing to go activate it.  Would you rather 
> scrollback to read the diagnostics in your terminal?

Yes.

> >> (So what if you're running the tests on another machine? --
> >> obviously you have a network connection to it, right?)
> > and all the other little things you have to do to
> > get remote GUIs to work
> That's not what I said ;-)  See, the remote X session is a protocol 
> where the remote machine tells the local machine what to display on the 
> screen.

You were talking about doing GUI stuff.  You mentioned running tests on
another machines.  So yes, it is what you said.  You maybe didn't say
what you meant.  Please remember that English is even more context-
sensitive than perl is.

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