[572] in Athena User Interface
Re: No focus for newly-launched apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Wed Jan 3 18:45:05 2001
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In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:45:00 -0500
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
> I've noticed that when you launch an xterm or whatever, it doesn't
> get the focus, which is both unexpected and a departure from
> MacOS/Windows. Has anyone thought about this?
If you do change this default as Andrew suggested, I think you'd want
to special-case zwgc windows so that they are never-focus. I seem to
have set up my login to do this, though I didn't change the
focus-on-create behavior, mostly for the reasons Richard mentioned.
If there's no way to differentiate between a new program starting and
a program, say, throwing up a error dialog box once a minute, then the
resulting behavior could be annoying in some circumstances. (Think
AOL-IM or ICQ.)
Personally, I don't find the lack of focus-on-create annoying. People
in usability testing seemed to realize immediately that they needed to
click on the new program for it to get keyboard focus.
-B.
