@johnlea: what if there are two or more windows trying to grab my attention? With a multi-window messenger, that's a common enough case - sod's law has it that everyone will try to reach you when you're afk for your lunch break. So the alt-tab behaviour you describe is helpful, but still doesn't solve the problem.
I understand why you mark this as "opinion", but would strongly urge you to reconsider. At this point, I know too little about how your notification system stands in relation to freedesktop.org standards. I understand that https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators is referenced on http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierIcon, but what real-world implications that has is not something I know. I can therefore imagine that KDE applications, or pure GTK/Qt/Motif /<insert-toolkit-of-choice> applications won't use your system either. It seems that for a software that is predominantly concerned with providing an integrated user experience (such as Unity or any other desktop environment would be), ignoring how legacy/third-party software acts can only lead to sub-par UX. Of course the same argument can be made for applications, but if they don't interoperate with desktop environments, they only hurt themselves - a DE hurts the whole distribution. Still, I can't make that choice for you. In the meantime, I just won't use Ubuntu for communications, as it just can't meet my needs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/883000 Title: unity has no way to indicate which dialog is claiming for attention To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/883000/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
