Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.3-8 Severity: normal
Openoffice gabs focus several times during its slow startup. This is a problem. After starting openoffice, I type several commands in some xterm while waiting for the slow start. Or I write a sentence or two in some other editor. Openoffice suddenly grabbing focus means that some typing ends up in openoffice instead, and I have to repeatedly click other windows to keep focus where I want it. This is annoying, openoffice tries to grab focus and go on top even though it is is far from ready to use. It is of course reasonable that openoffice grabs focus once, but not that it does so over and over, 3-4 times for opening a single document and n times more if opening n documents at the same time. Grabbing focus once for each documents is silly - I can't start working on the first one because each of the other documents take turns getting in my way. This behaviour means openoffice gets in the way of itself as well as in the way of working with other apps. This program is already a slow starter - simply omitting those focus grabs would be a lot less annoying and contribute towards a slight speedup and smaller codebase too. A program that needs several seconds to start should seriously consider not grabbing focus at all, so as to not disturb the user. Helge Hafting -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'experimental'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 Locale: LANG=no_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=no_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on: ii dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.24.10 Common utilities for spelling dict ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-8 OpenOffice.org office suite binary ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.3-8+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.3-8 English (US) language package for ii openoffice.org-l10n-nb [openo 1.1.3-8 Norwegian Bokmal language package ii ttf-opensymbol 1.1.3-8 The OpenSymbol TrueType font ii xml-core 0.09 XML infrastructure and XML catalog -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
